Bird flu kills 47 tigers, 3 lions and a panther in Vietnam zoos, state media reports

Forty-seven tigers, 3 lions and a panther person died successful zoos in southbound Vietnam owed to the vertebrate flu, authorities media said.

According to the Vietnam News Agency (VNA), the mammals died astatine the backstage My Quynh safari parkland successful Long An state and the Vuon Xoai zoo successful Dong Nai, adjacent Ho Chi Minh City.

According to trial results from the National Centre for Animal Health Diagnosis, the animals died "because of H5N1 benignant A virus," VNA said.

The study noted that nary zoo unit members were successful adjacent interaction with the animals that contracted the disease.

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In this photograph taken 23 March 2007 shows an big tiger walking wrong a cage astatine a nationalist zoo successful Hanoi.  (HOANG DINH NAM/AFP via Getty Images)

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) person said that determination has been an summation successful outbreaks among mammals caused by influenza viruses, including avian influenza A (H5).

In the U.S., a diligent successful Missouri was diagnosed with vertebrate flu successful September.

The patient, who had underlying aesculapian conditions, was successfully treated with antiviral medications astatine the infirmary and has since been discharged, according to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS).

A cattle is shown by an exhibitor astatine the authorities just successful West Allis, Wisconsin, U.S., August 9, 2024. Dairy farmers are taking precautions with investigating for avian flu portion exhibiting cattle during the fair. (Reuters/Jim Vindruska)

This marks the 14th idiosyncratic (in 3 states) to declaration vertebrate flu successful the U.S. this twelvemonth — and the archetypal corruption to hap without immoderate reported vulnerability to sick oregon infected animals, the CDC alert stated.

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The anterior 13 cases came aft vulnerability to dairy cows oregon poultry.

Fox News' Melissa Rudy contributed to this report.