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Monday, July 12, 2010

Vietnam : Blue ear disease in southern province

Via Xinhua :

" HANOI, July 12 : Blue ear disease occurred in Vietnam 's southern Tien Giang province with 380 infected pigs, the Vietnam News Agency reported Monday.

The agency quoted Tien Giang provincial government as reporting that the disease struck nine communes of the province.

To prevent the spread of the disease, local authorities have taken prevention measures including the destruction of all infected pigs.

Other measures have been also implemented such as sterilizing the affected areas and their neighborhood and containing movements of traffic in these places to curb the disease from spreading.

The local authorities have decided to give affected farmers 25, 000 Vietnamese dong (about 1.3 dollars) for per kilo of animals lost, said the report."

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