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  • South Korea culls 500,000+ chickens a week ago--then "no news" (?)

    The last news on FT that I could find on South Korea's outbreak on several poultry farms is dated 11/30/06. They were launching a wider culling circle--encompassing 500,000+ poultry, as it had spread to 1-2 additional farms from the first one.

    ....and now.....silence for 6 days?

    AND...what of 4 new suspected H5N1 human cases in Egypt in the same time frame? More silence?

    And then there was Indonesia....

    Two questions:

    1. Has anyone heard anything further about this event?

    2. Isnt this a repeating pattern? News of a sudden new outbreak happens--and then (just as suddenly) there is zero followup, and a news blackout.


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    Avian Influenza Alert Upgraded



    By Park Chung-a
    Staff Reporter



    The government upgraded the alert level on avian influenza from ``attention?? to ``precaution?? Thursday in an attempt to raise people?s awareness of the highly virulent H5N1 virus following two outbreaks in Iksan, North Cholla Province, 280 km south of Seoul

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    Re: South Korea culls 500,000+ chickens a week ago--then "no news" (?)

    Moved out of Headlines, since post was primarilly a discussion question.

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      Re: South Korea culls 500,000+ chickens a week ago--then "no news" (?)

      Thank you Alaska Denise

      Snowy

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        Re: South Korea culls 500,000+ chickens a week ago--then "no news" (?)

        Originally posted by 4-ABBA
        AND...what of 4 new suspected H5N1 human cases in Egypt in the same time frame? More silence?
        There were 4 suspected cases from Sohag governorate -- 3 children and a neighbor -- who, it seems (from news reports) tested neg.

        Then there were another 3 suspected cases from Sohag -- a 25 year-old woman and her 2 children. Haven't heard anything about them. Then, there was also a report of a 25 year-old woman suspected to have bf -- and I wondered if this was the same woman as the one with the 2 kids. In any event, haven't heard about her either.

        The Egyptian government's bf website (the English page) hasn't been updated for over a month (i.e. they haven't mentioned any of these Sohag cases on their website).
        ...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes

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          Re: South Korea culls 500,000+ chickens a week ago--then "no news" (?)

          12/5/2006 9:07:00 AM

          South Korea Slaughters 771,000 Chickens To Stem Bird Flu

          SEOUL (AP) -- South Korea?s quarantine officials have completed slaughtering hundreds of thousands of chickens after the country recently saw two outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain, officials said Tuesday.

          A total of 771,000 chickens have been killed in Iksan, about 250 kilometers south of Seoul, where both outbreaks occurred last month, said a city official.

          Another 447 pigs, six dogs and 14 unspecified animals within a 3-kilometer radius of the outbreak sites have been killed, the official said.


          South Korea culled about 5.3 million birds during the last known outbreak of bird flu in 2003.

          The government decided Tuesday to fully compensate the two chicken farms where the outbreaks occurred.

          In a policy coordination meeting with the ruling Uri Party, the government also agreed to pay a maximum KRW13 million (US$14,000) per farm for other farms in the area to compensate for the slaughtered poultry, the party said on its Web site.

          As part of a campaign to boost poultry consumption that dwindled after the outbreaks of bird flu, anyone infected with the deadly virus after eating chickens, ducks or eggs will be compensated by up to KRW2 billion, the party added.

          Since ravaging Asia?s poultry in late 2003, the H5N1 virus has killed at least 154 people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. Infections among people have been traced to contact with infected birds, but experts fear the virus could mutate into a form that could create a human pandemic.

          South Korea has also reported a few outbreaks of a low-grade strain of bird flu that is not harmful to humans.

          ...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes

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