Vietnam isolates Hanoi bird flu site, virus strikes south

0 Comments | AFP, March, 2007

HANOI (AFP) — Vietnamese health workers Friday moved to contain a bird flu outbreak in the capital Hanoi as the H5N1 virus spread to a fifth location within three weeks, in the country's southern Mekong Delta.

Donning protective suits and face masks, workers in Hanoi sprayed disinfectant at several poultry farms on the northern outskirts of the city where 2,000 chickens died of the virus or were destroyed earlier this week.

Police and officials manned 24-hour checkpoints set up since Monday leading into the Hau Duong hamlet in suburban Dong Anh district to quarantine the site of the outbreak, where another 2,000 birds have since been vaccinated.

"No poultry and poultry products are allowed to be transported in or out of the area," local veterinarian Do Van...