(1) Poultry farmers need to adopt strict hygiene standards to curb Asial’s deadly bird flu virus, a top Vietnamese official said on the eve of an international conference Wednesday on fighting the disease.
(2) A dozen Vietnamese have died of bird flu since Dec.30, raising concerns that the disease could be re-emerging after an outbreak last year spread to 10 Asian countries, forcing the slaughter of more than 100 million birds.
(3) “It’s difficult to change their habit but we need to educate them, “Bui Quang Anh, head of the Department for Animal Health, said Tuesday.”Once they understand and follow all the instructions, we can prevent the virus from spreading.
(4) Big commercial farms learned from the first outbreak and applied preventive measures, such as strict hygiene standards and regular disinfection, Anh said. The most recent outbreak was only reported in small farms, which failed to apply preventive measures, he said.
(5) New regulations should include separating ducks from chickens, requiring ducks to be raised in cages and improving hygiene measures, Anh said. Ducks should not roam freely in rice fields as they do now in the southern Mekong Delta, he added.
(6) The conference will be looking at a variety of issues, including mass vaccinations, flu research, farm hygiene, animal husbandry practices and improving coordination between animal health and human health agencies.
(7) The virus, which in the last year has killed 46 people including—32 from Vietnam and 12 from Thailand—has yet to mutate into a form that can be transmitted between humans. But scientists say it may mutate to a human form that could become as deadly as the ones that killed millions during three influenza pandemics of the 20th century.
31. The subject of the international conference mentioned in the first paragraph is about( ).
32. According to the passage, which of the following statement is true?
33. According to the passage, which of the following measures are NOT effective in fighting against the bird flu?
34. We can infer from the last paragraph that( ).
35. The best title for the passage is( ).