The deaths occurred in August and September on the internal most My Quynh safari park in Lengthy An province and the Vuon Xoai zoo in Dong Nai
AFP
02 October, 2024, 05:05 pm
Ideal modified: 02 October, 2024, 05:26 pm
Forty-seven tigers, three lions and a panther possess died in zoos in south Vietnam attributable to the H5N1 bird flu virus, notify media mentioned Wednesday.
The deaths occurred in August and September on the internal most My Quynh safari park in Lengthy An province and the Vuon Xoai zoo in Dong Nai, discontinuance to Ho Chi Minh Metropolis, the dependable Vietnam Data Agency (VNA) reported.
In step with take a look at results from the National Centre for Animal Health Diagnosis, the animals died “due to the of H5N1 form A plague”, VNA mentioned.
The zoos declined to observation when contacted by AFP.
No zoo crew members in discontinuance contact with the animals had experienced respiratory signs, the VNA utter added.
Training for Nature Vietnam (ENV), an NGO that makes a speciality of wildlife conservation, mentioned there were an entire of 385 tigers residing in captivity in Vietnam on the cease of 2023.
About 310 are kept at 16 privately owned farms and zoos, while the remaining are in notify-owned facilities.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that since 2022, there were growing reviews of deadly outbreaks amongst mammals resulted in by influenza viruses, including H5N1.
It moreover says H5N1 infections can fluctuate from gentle to severe in folks, and in some cases can also be deadly.
Vietnam notified the WHO a few human fatality from the virus in March.
In 2004, dozens of tigers died from bird flu or had been culled on the enviornment’s largest breeding farm in Thailand.
