Bird flu again in Vietnam

Not too long ago, The United Nations World Health Organization was congratulating Vietnam on its success in controlling bird flu.

Unfortunately, high pathogenic avian influenza has re-appeared in the country. It's been found in ducks and geese in 3 southern provinces.

This corresponds to renewed outbreaks in China, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.

This seems to indicate that because the H5N1 virus does reside within migrating waterfowl, reappear, spread by these ducks and geese.

This raises the question of how we can permanently control the virus. Those countries have done a good job of controlling the infection within domestic poultry -- but the real villain seems to be migrating birds.

Many wildlife lovers don't like to hear this conclusion. They prefer to blame the actions of people, including bird smugglers.

But it's unlikely that many people in small Vietnamese villages import exotic pet birds.

It's much more likely that H5N1 has ridden into them in the intestines of water fowl.

How can we eliminate HPAI from migrating water fowl without an environmental massacre?

Bird flu again in Vietnam



Vietnam Bird Flu
Vietnam Bird Flu