Ha Vi, the largest poultry wholesale market in Vietnam, has tightened controls over the quarantine procedures in the wake of the most recent bird flu scare.

The market has yet to detect any chicken birds to have tested positive for the A/H7N9 or A/H5N1 virus. But, according to the Veterinary Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, inspections of 147 markets nationwide have resulted in 61 confirmed cases for A/H5N1 in chickens.

Each day the market is required to test around 20,000 chickens. Certificates of origin and quarantine must also be shown for transportation of poultry to the market. Traders have also been provided with sterilisation chemicals. All live birds, poultry and water used must be separated, and a sterilisation also takes place at the market gate.

Each day the market is required to test around 20,000 chickens  

A general antiseptic spray is carried out once a week, closing the market on the 15th of each the lunar moth.

 Trade at the market has slowed as a result.