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 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.
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 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.
(Editing by Ed Davies)
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