Quang Ninh: 12,000 smuggled chickens culled
Law-enforcement force in Hai Ha district, Quang Ninh province on February 28 confiscated 12,000 breeding chickens smuggled from China.
All the chickens were destroyed to prevent the spread of H7N9 bird flu from China.
According to the World Health Organisation, the ongoing bird flu bout in China is the fifth since 2013. This is the largest epidemic with 425 cases of infection in human reported, mainly in Guangxi, Yunnan and Guangdong provinces.
Guangxi and Yunnan share a border with Vietnam.