Bird flu strikes ducks in southern Vietnam city

HANOI, March 9 (Reuters) - Bird flu has killed 100 ducks in the Mekong delta city of Can Tho in southern Vietnam, the fifth locality in the country to have detected the virus in the past three weeks, a government report said on Friday.

The 58-day-old ducks, which were not vaccinated against the H5N1 virus, were found dead on Wednesday at a farm near Can Tho. Tests confirmed they had been infected with bird flu, the Agriculture Ministry's Animal Health Department said.

Workers slaughtered the remaining 400 ducks in the same stock, as they have done with 11,000 chickens in three affected northern locations, including Hanoi's district of Dong Anh since late February.

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