HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam on Friday confirmed its first outbreak of H5N8 avian influenza at a chicken farm in the northern province of Quang Ninh.

 

Samples from the farm in the province's Ha Long City tested positive to the virus a day earlier, the agriculture ministry said in a news release.

 

It said the tests were conducted after around 200 chickens had been found dead at the farm last month.

 

"H5N8 not only kills poultry but also infects humans without leaving symptoms," the head of the province's animal health department, Tran Xuan Dong, said.

 

The authorities had taken measures to prevent the disease from spreading further, it said, without elaborating.

 

The World Health Organization (WHO) said last week the risk of human-to-human spread of the H5N8 strain of bird flu appears low, after seven people in Russia contacted the virus but were asymptomatic.

 

H5N8 outbreaks were reported last year in poultry or wild birds in Britain, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Germany, Hungary, Iraq, Japan, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Russia, according to the WHO.

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2021-07-02

Nice photo of the chickens.

I see that they have nice comfortable beds and nurses for all those asymptomatic egg-laying hens ????

 

I assume the photo is a quarantine centre for covid? Is posting such a photo just more fear-mongering? The avian flu is definitely something to fear, but this photo... "Get ready for the next reason to lockdown society!"

It would be like a story on a drunk driver including a photo of an unrelated family in a car wearing double seatbelts and helmets.

 

The same article on the Reuters website doesn't include the very scary photo.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/vietnam-reports-first-h5n8-avian-flu-outbreak-poultry-2021-07-02/

17 minutes ago, timmyp said:

The avian flu is definitely something to fear,

 

but

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

"H5N8 not only kills poultry but also infects humans without leaving symptoms," the head of the province's animal health department, Tran Xuan Dong, said.

 

and

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The World Health Organization (WHO) said last week the risk of human-to-human spread of the H5N8 strain of bird flu appears low, after seven people in Russia contacted the virus but were asymptomatic.

 

so it infects humans but they show no symptoms   so we again shut down the whole world ?