Extreme Bird Flu Measures In Asia
China To Vaccinate Entire Poultry Stock; Vietnam To Purge Cities
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A Kuwaiti vendor displays ducks at marketplace in Kuwait City on Oct. 25, 2005. (Getty Images/Yasser Al-Zayyat)
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A vendor takes a nap near cages with chickens while waiting for customers at a chicken market Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005 in Shanghai, China. (AP)
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In this photo released by China's official Xinhua news agency, a scientific research worker displays the human vaccines for bird flu in Beijing, China, on Monday November 14, 2005. (AP)
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A health worker disinfects a farm truck loaded with chickens at a poultry wholesale market on November 14, 2005 in Xining of Qianghai Province, China. (GETTY IMAGES)
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A medical worker disinfects a poultry farm in Xuyi county, east China's Jiangsu Province Friday, Nov. 11, 2005. (AP)
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"China is in the process of vaccinating all the poultry in the country," said Jia Youling, the Agriculture Ministry's chief veterinary officer.
He said the government will pay all fees involved, but he did not provide additional details during an online question-and-answer session.
China has more than 14 billion farm poultry, accounting for nearly 21 percent of the world's total.
It was unclear if the birds were being vaccinated against the virulent H5N1 strain that has ravaged poultry stocks across Asia and killed at least 64 people since 2003.
The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization has encouraged countries to vaccinate birds while practicing other control methods, such as mass slaughtering and the controlled movement of poultry in and around infected areas. Officials, however, have warned against possible counterfeit vaccines that were found circulating in another part of the country.
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