Health experts called for collective disease prevention and integrated solutions to achieve zero dengue deaths in the country at an online talk show on June 14.

Over 50 experts and senior officials from the Vietnamese and Cambodian ministries of public health and eight border provinces attended a workshop held in the Mekong Delta of An Giang to discuss emerging infectious diseases and strengthen cross-border collaboration on public health security at national and regional levels.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has urged four provinces of Bac Kan, Lang Son, Quang Ninh, and Hoa Binh to implement rigorous measures against African swine fever.

The Lao Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry’s Department of Livestock and Fisheries recently reported an H5N1 bird flu outbreak in a Vientiane market.

Ban Khok market in Salavane province of Laos has become one of the hotspots for the illegal trade of wildlife.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on May 4 asked ministries and localities to strengthen the control, prevention, detection, and handling of the smuggle of poultry and poultry products into Vietnam.

The application of high-tech or organic practices to agricultural production may come with costs that are higher than conventional methods, but it will help save in the long run for pest control by improving product quality and bringing higher income.

Hanoi is facing a high risk of an outbreak of dengue fever with the number of cases in the city is on the rise, tripled compared to the same period last year.

Thai shrimps have been affected by early mortality syndrome (EMS), which has severely dented yields since 2012, leading to dependence on imports, according to Thai Shrimp Association (TSA).

Amid the complicated developments of Covid-19, border guards are making great efforts to control the country’s border area in order to prevent the disease from spreading in Vietnam.

Cambodia has earmarked 2 billion USD to save the economy in case of the outbreak of the acute respiratory disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said on March 10.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade on February 12 launched a website on the fight against the acute respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus (COVID-19) at //hanhdong.moit.gov.vn/.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Indonesian President Joko Widodo emphasised the need to boost cooperation among countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to cope with the acute respiratory disease caused by a new coronavirus (nCoV) during their telephone talks on February 4.

The number of dengue fever cases in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa has reduced, but serious ones increased although this has yet been the peak season of the disease, according to local health authority.

Credit institutions have assisted households affected by African swine fever (ASF) with 357 billion VND (15.35 million USD), heard a press conference in Hanoi on June 13.

The African swine fever (ASF) in pigs has appeared in 55 out of 63 provinces and centrally run cities in the country, forcing the cull of 2.5 million pigs, or 7.5 percent of the total pig stocks, it was reported at a conference on fighting the disease and restoring the pig farming industry on June 13.

Professor Nguyen Chan Hung, one of Vietnam’s leading oncology experts, has been retired for almost 20 years. At the age of 75, he is still passionate about his work.

African swine fever has been successfully controlled in Ngoc Thuy ward of Long Bien district and Phu Thi commune of Gia Lam district of Hanoi, the municipal Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has announced.

The rapid onset of the African swine fever (ASF) in China may spread to neighbouring countries in Southeast Asia and the Korean peninsula, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warned on August 28.

The Mekong Delta is Vietnam’s seafood production and export hub but the region still faces many challenges, such as disease outbreaks and difficulties in meeting market requirements for food origin.