Hanoi/Hong Kong (AP) – A vaccine against the bird flu epidemic in East Asia can be produced according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) within one month. The current H5N1 virus had already been isolated in laboratories in Hong Kong and Japan, was announced by the WHO spokesman in Hanoi, Robert Dietz on Wednesday. The virus will now be analysed. «There are the causative agent, quickly attenuated reference strains are to produce, from which a vaccine can be won», confirmed Michael Fleiderer, vaccine expert at the Paul-Ehrlich – Institute in Langen. Currently, all experts on alert are around the world. With vaccine production one will probably only begin when the disease in other places of the globe to appear, and threatens the global spread, said Fleiderer. Currently all vaccine producers in particular to work on a flu vaccine for the winter in the southern hemisphere are employed, which is used from February to. In Hong Kong, the preventive measures against avian influenza were tightened Meanwhile on Wednesday after a dead peregrine had been found with the dangerous strain of H5N1 virus. A Government spokesman announced strict controls on poultry markets. A market close to the site of the dead Hawk will be completely cleaned and disinfected. Many of Hong Kong’s 6.8 million residents prepare currently on the Chinese new year on Thursday, for the traditionally many chickens are slaughtered. Also in Thailand, the authorities warned the population consumption not durchgegarter chicken products. Of bird flu are in Viet Nam, so far at least five people died and more than a million chickens have died. The authorities ordered to the killing of around ten million poultry in the two hardest hit provinces, to bring the disease under control. The avian influenza virus had 1997 skipped the species barrier and killed six people in Hong Kong. Millions of chickens had been slaughtered at the time as a precaution.