Healthy and known origin poultry can now be transported to the province. Dien Bien also asked its communes and districts to take preventative measures to prevent the epidemic from recurring.

The avian influenza broke out last month at 9 households in Noong Luong and Thanh Yen communes. Nearly 3,000 poultry died and were culled in only three days. No dead poultry have been reported in the province over the past 21 days-a required period for any locality to declare itself free from bird flu.