HANOI (AFP) - Vietnam plans to start its first human trial of a locally-made H5N1 bird flu vaccine as early as next month, using 20 to 30 volunteers, said health officials in the communist country. The drug trial, to be carried out with US government technical assistance, will be the latest of several global efforts to develop a vaccine for mass production, with research also going on in the United States, Europe and Asia. The news comes as a new wave of bird flu sweeping Vietnam has...

Meanwhile, the government is also investing in building multi-story poultry farming structures, according to the Municipalities and Agriculture Ministry, as there is not enough space to accommodate poultry farms, as the country only has 717 sq. Hundreds of workers at Bahrain's poultry farms were recently vaccinated against ordinary flu to improve their protection against avian influenza. The Health Minister explained that the aim is to prevent the two types of viruses mixing and mutating...

Today, by touring Perdue Farms, one of the four poultry companies operating on the shore, I saw just how important this industry is to thousands of families in Maryland, how progressive the poultry business is, and how tied to the earth it remains. During the visit, which was billed as a farm-to-fork learning tour, Brown was briefed by company officials, toured three facilities and met with local farmers. His tour there included a view of grain receiving and feed manufacturing as well as...

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He ordered the closure of all hatching businesses that fail to meet new tough guidelines, the culling of affected poultry and the reduction of free-range poultry farms. Since the reemergence of bird flu in the country, 106 communes in 18 provinces have recorded outbreaks and five cases of human transmissions of the disease have occurred, with one confirmed dead. PM requests urgent steps to contain bird flu. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, on June 16, once again ordered ministries, agencies...