March 1, 2007

Vietnam to receive more bird flu vaccines from China 

Vietnam is scheduled to receive an addition of 20 million doses of bird flu vaccines for fowls from China in mid-March, reports local newspaper Vietnam Agriculture.

The vaccines volume is part of 125 million doses that Vietnam is to import from China under a contract recently signed between a Vietnamese enterprise and its Chinese partner.

Vietnam, which has imported 25 million doses of vaccines under the contract, is expected to receive the rest by the end of March.

Bird flu reoccurred in Vietnam last December, hitting a total of eight southern and one northern locality since then.

Bird flu outbreaks in Vietnam, starting in December 2003, have killed and led to the forced culling of dozens of millions of fowls in the country, said the department.