South Korea - No. of Farms Infected with Avian Influenza Nears 100 - 6 million birds culled

[Gert van der Hoek]

Write : 2016-12-08 14


The number of South Korean poultry farms confirmed to be infected with highly-pathogenic strain of avian influenza(AI) is close to reaching 100.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said birds in two farms in Icheon and Anseong in Gyeonggi Province and farms in Yangpyeong and Pyeongtaek tested positive for the H5N6 strain of avian influenza(AI).

The ministry Wednesday received reports of additional suspected bird flu cases from farms in Yeoju and Anseong in Gyeonggi Province and Naju in South Jeolla Province.

Quarantine officials said that as of Thursday morning, 33 out of 43 suspected cases tested positive for bird flu. Officials believe the rest could be confirmed soon.

So far, North Chungcheong Province has seen ten confirmed cases of bird flu, Gyeonggi Province eleven, South Chungcheong Province five, South Jeolla Province four, North Jeolla Province one and Sejong City two.

Roughly five-point-eight million birds have been culled so far in 161 farms, some of them as a preventive measure. An additional one-point-nine million birds are expected to be culled soon.

[sharon sanders]

2016-12-08 10:00:00

The Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Livestock (Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry) conducted a close inspection on the ducks (Icheon), native chickens (Anseong), 12.3 days old ducks (Yangpyeong) and laying hens (H5N6 type) on December 7th. The number of ducks (18,600 in Yangcheon, 4,500 in Yangpyeong) and chickens (38,746 in Anseong and 80,000 in Pyeongtaek) were buried in Pyeongtaek (11.29 days, Icheon, Anseong, Pyeongtaek; 12.3 days) move to set the room ever around the farm control, based disinfection facility installation and operation, including emergency preventative measures to conduct agri-food section AI additional prevention thorough disinfection to poultry farmers and workers for, outsider, vehicle access control, etc. I was asked to make sure that I did everything I could to prevent the blockage. http://tinyurl.com/hyj6ngl

2016-12-08 18:00:00

The Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Livestock (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries) announced on December 7 that it had been confirmed as a highly pathogenic AI (H5N6 strain) as a result of a close inspection at the Agriculture, Forestry and Livestock Quarantine Headquarters. (Number 1200) silkie being bred in the farms was buried 12.5 days treatment as a precaution, moved to set the room ever around the farm control, based disinfection facility installation and operation, such as an emergency preventative measures carried agri-food section AI Add generated To prevent the disease, farmers and related workers in poultry farms were thoroughly disinfected, and outsiders and vehicles were checked for access control.

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