This was due to the effective measures taken by the Dak Lak Animal Health Department like locating the epidemic, setting up four new checkpoint stations, disinfecting breeding farms, and destroying any infected fowl.

Thuy Le Vu, the vice director of the Dak Lak Animal Health Department, said that in addition to communication activities to raise public awareness of the danger of the bird flu and to advise them to only eat well-cooked meat and eggs, the department helped some people clean and disinfect their breeding facilities.

The department has also asked the Department of Animal Health under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to provide more vaccine to help prevent the epidemic in the future.

The deadly bird flu virus that hit the province from May 18-28 infected 2,600 fowl.