The ducks on a farm in the province of Bac Lieu tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain which has killed more than 60 people in Asia since 2003, included 41 Vietnamese, and recently spread to Europe.
"We have just slaughtered and buried all the 180 ducks after tests showed they had the bird flu virus," Nguyen Van Giam, chairman of the People's Committee in Ninh Quoi A commune where the virus was first detected in 2004, told Reuters.
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