HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Greater than a dozen tigers had been incinerated after the animals gotten smaller hen flu at a zoo in southern Vietnam, officers stated.State media VNExpress cited a caretaker at Vuon Xoai zoo in Bien Hoa town pronouncing the animals had been fed with uncooked hen purchased from within sight farms. The panther and 20 tigers, together with a number of cubs, weighed between 10 and 120 kilograms (20 and 265 kilos) after they died. The our bodies had been incinerated and buried at the premises.“The tigers died so speedy. They seemed vulnerable, refused to devour and died after two days of falling ill,” stated zoo supervisor Nguyen Ba Phuc.Samples taken from the tigers examined sure for H5N1, the virus that reasons hen flu.The virus used to be first recognized in 1959 and grew right into a fashionable and extremely deadly threat to migratory birds and domesticated poultry. It has since developed, and in recent times H5N1 used to be detected in a rising selection of animals starting from canines and cats to sea lions and polar bears.
In cats, scientists have discovered the virus attacking the mind, destructive and clotting blood vessels and inflicting seizures and dying.
Greater than 20 different tigers had been remoted for tracking. The zoo homes some 3,000 different animals together with lions, bears, rhinos, hippos and giraffes.
The 30 group of workers participants who had been taking good care of the tigers examined destructive for hen flu and had been in customary well being situation, VNExpress reported. Every other outbreak additionally befell at a zoo in within sight Lengthy An province, the place 27 tigers and three lions died inside every week in September, the newspaper stated.
CORRECTS NAME OF ZOO- Animal well being staff spray disinfectant after tigers died of hen flu at Vuon Xoai zoo in Bien Hoa town, Vietnam on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (Phuoc Tuan/VNExpress by way of AP)
Ordinary flu lines that come from animals are infrequently present in other folks. Well being officers in the USA stated Thursday that two dairy staff in California had been inflamed — making 16 general circumstances detected within the nation in 2024.“The deaths of 47 tigers, 3 lions, and a panther at My Quynh Safari and Vuon Xoai Zoo amid Vietnam’s hen flu outbreak are tragic and spotlight the hazards of maintaining wild animals in captivity,” PETA Senior Vice President Jason Baker stated in a remark despatched to The Related Press.
“The exploitation of untamed animals additionally places international human well being in danger by way of expanding the chance of any other pandemic,” Baker stated.Hen flu has led to loads of deaths all over the world, nearly all of them involving direct touch between other folks and inflamed birds.
