S. Korea - MAFRA says 1830 dogs, cats, and pigs test negative for avian flu - January 3, 2017

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The Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Shipping Time | 2017/01/03 12:26
AI farm dog and cat test results are all spoken out

(Seoul-Yonhap News) Jung-gu, a reporter at Gyeonggi-do, Gyeonggi Province, plans to investigate whether AI-infected cases of H5N6 have been infected, .
and plan to inspect 10 AI in seven major cities including 11 major cities, .

The catch criteria are Sejong City, Gyeonggi Anseong, Yeoju, Icheon, Chungbuk Province, and Jincheon where the AI has been found.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, all of the 1,189 cases of AI, including dogs, cats, and pigs, were found on the AI-farm and nearby farms.

However, since the case of a cats infected with AI was revealed at a home in Pocheon instead of a farm, it is said that wild cats are likely to have been exposed to AI by feeding on birds.

"There was a case in which AI antibodies were detected in 2014, but at that time there were many cases of feeding chickens with AI in poultry farms to dogs, but now this is prohibited, "In that sense, I see cat infections as a special case."

The results of the survey are expected to come in the middle of the month considering the capture period (3 ~ 13 days) and the inspection period (average 5 days).

Earlier, the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries said it had no plans to artificially capture cats and dogs and to slaughter them, considering possession of violations of the Animal Protection Act.

However, AI plans to consider slaughtering dogs and cats that have been tested positive for livestock by the Livestock Prevention Act.

On the other hand, the case of cat infections led to a careful response from the Department of Agricul- tural Affairs regarding the concern that AI could spread to the path of birds → cats instead of cats → cats.

"There have been no cases of horizontal transmission of cats between H5N6 and H5N6," said Lee Hee-su, director of bird diseases at the Agriculture, Forestry and Livestock Quarantine Headquarters.

However, H5N1, another virus type, was found to have horizontal propagation in the laboratory, and in Thailand, there was also horizontal spread between tigers, a feline.

About the possibility of horizontal spreading Kim Yong-sang, director of the Department of Veterinary Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, said, "There were five AI-farms within 1 km of the Pocheon home where cat's dead were found. The epidemiological analysis of cat's activity radius, "He said.

To confirm that horizontal propagation has been done, it is interpreted that it is only possible to estimate through the current dynamic epidemiological survey, and it is not easy to come to a definite conclusion.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries promoted national preventive measures such as publicizing the animals to avoid contact with animals such as wild birds and cats, and urged veterinarians and animal shelter staff who frequently come in contact with animals to thoroughly observe preventive measures.http://www.yonhapnews.co.kr/economy/...?template=2087

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I don't see anything on the government MAFRA site yet about dogs and pigs but it may appear later today. Yonhap is publicly funded and is basically a government news outlet.



Here is the government confirmation of avian flu found in cats:

2017-01-01 17:00:00

□ The home game Pocheon material found in our homes while one male cat ('16 .12.25 one) and one for the road kittens ('16 .12.26 one) ○ '16 agriculture, forestry and 31th of December, one livestock quarantine headquarters highly pathogenic eND diagnosed with H5N6 AI type game Fortune cat confirmed highly pathogenic elapsed '16 .12.25, found that the mortality stay 26 days at homes cats home game Fortune material males (12.25) and the way the kittens 1 (12.26) 12.26 Gyeonggi owner Report on Gyeonggi northern animal health laboratory notification to that fact as a result of suspected AI virus samples sent to HQ '16 .12.30 one Agriculture, Forestry and Livestock quarantine and disease Control Division Agriculture, Forestry and Livestock quarantine and inspection samples received at the same time '16 .12 .30 days Arrival and Epidemiological Survey of Epidemiological Investigation Team of Agriculture, Forestry and Livestock Quarantine Headquarters. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Korea, Pocheon Public Health, Public Health Yangzhou joint response '16 .12.30 agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry and quarantine office one type H5N6 AI virus confirmed '16 agriculture, forestry and 31th of December, one livestock quarantine office confirmed highly pathogenic H5N6 AI type □ (based Action), agriculture, forestry and livestock quarantine headquarters and the Centers for disease Control and prevention last year 12.30 days AI infection is suspected cat our body thing confirmation immediately, the following preventive measures for enforcing Agriculture, Forestry and Livestock quarantine Division ○ the claimant residence disinfection such conduct preventative measures, and report prior to our one deulgoyangyi (kitten 1 ) burial place disinfection measures ○ infection epidemiology and other pets of the complainant (one two), while the animal residence in quarantine for inspection by sampling ○ discovered our body 2 (house cat male one, deulgoyangyi cubs 1) last year confirmed by 12.31 days pathogenic H5N6 AI type for * the mortality by two chicks other than our one deulgoyangyi 1 ('16 .12.27 day) and capture one 4 (1 deulgoyangyi mother, cub 3) sample the reception (one 31th of December '16) of the overhaul * deulgoyangyi 4 is (the mother of our cat isolated) isolated on the northern Gyeonggi animal health laboratory measures ○ ever let Gyeonggi way around a cat scan capture and Centers for disease Control ○ cat identify the body contact enforce AI human infection prevention measures, such as antiviral medication to hayeoteum -enforcement contacts investigations by competent public health outcome, cat owners, such as 10 contacts and do the cats take action on the local one, Gyeonggi animal health laboratory personnel 2 people including 12 people classification as high risk ○ high-risk group was administered the antiviral agent for the classification 12 people, seasonal flu vaccines were inoculated conducted for after confirming inoculation US jeopjongja, the maximum incubation period of 10 days is being monitored concentrating whether symptoms - 12.31 days Any person showing symptoms such as the current high-risk 12 people fever, cough, of sore throat until the □ (cat H5N6 infection related) Centers for disease Control and Prevention are examples of a cat infected with H5N6 AI in China found but, ○ from cats infected with H5N6 AI case the person infected is not a little to see yet human risk of infection from cats is very low but general public precautions compliance promotion, including plans to conduct human infection precautions being a veterinarian is infected from the * infected with H7N2 AI in the United States in 2016, cat reported cases being □ (precautions and cooperate details) governments asked to actively deulkkeseo national coordination the following for AI human infection prevention ○ general public have refrained from visiting livestock farms or migratory doraeji and wild birds cats and avoid contact with the our animals, wash your hands often more than 30 seconds, hand avoid touching your nunkoip ○ AI occurs farm workers and live disposal operations participants, including high-risk group is paying close attention to personal protection wear and personal hygiene , - seasonal influenza vaccine and a thorough antiviral drugs wherein, after work involved report it within 10 days of fever and cough, if sore throat, etc. cause health center immediately, or 1339 (Call Center for disease Control) ○ Livestock farmers are wild animals, such as the way a cat off the farm within the entry and livestock and companion animals to animals our bodies act prohibits such quarantine management that fed ○ wildlife and frequent contact with or likely workers - complies with AI infection prevention precautions during contact with the respiratory symptoms of cat * veterinarians, animal shelters, wildlife rescue center manager, etc. is a □ (AI prevention and human infection prevention) government while working closely with local governments to thoroughly disinfectant to promptly block the AI infected poultry, the best in human infection prevention We'll get ○ really dont do their best to prevent cooperation with relevant ministries local governments to prepare for the possibility of human infection sporadically in particular, the Centers for disease Control and prevention has geumbeon H5N6 AI-related risk (farm workers, on-site quarantine personnel, etc.), - the general public are wild birds or AI occurs farmers and the possibility of human infection is low possibility of contact is not high spring ○ balhim ten thousand and one doubts that the patient is admitted to the isolation caused even specify the country immediately, isolation wards, and prepare for the initiation therapy

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Food and Agriculture Department "Catching cats in AI area and checking whether they are infected"

Today, 11:56 PM


Food and Agriculture Department "Catching cats in AI area and checking whether they are infected"
Input 2017.01.03 (13:33) | (13:43) Internet News |
The authorities are planning to capture the cats and collect their bodies to check whether they are infected with AI.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries said it plans to capture the cats and collect their dead bodies from 18 areas where AI has been found until today. The area is divided into 11 cities, counties, and villages including Seoul, six metropolitan cities, Sejong City, Anseong, Yeoju, Icheon, Pyeongtaek, Pocheon, Chungcheongnam-do, Asan, Cheonan, Chungcheongbukdo and Jincheon.


More than 180 people from all over the world will check whether they are infected with AI. Kim Yong-sang, director of the Anti-Virus Control Division, said, "I caught the criterion by capturing within a radius of 10 km of the highly pathogenic AI virus."

The AI inspection process is first performed by the city / provincial bureaus in each city, county, and county, and then the first inspection is conducted.

A total of 1,839 antigens, including dogs, cats and pigs, were reported to have been confirmed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries on November 16, last year, when AI first occurred, The case of H5N6 type AI has not been confirmed yet.

According to the results of the Pokcheon Gyeonggi-do province, where the highly pathogenic H5N6 type AI was confirmed from cats, 142 people from neighboring villages and 12 people with infection-related contacts did not reveal any specific information.http://news.kbs.co.kr/news/view.do?ncd=3404836

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National antiretroviral cat test
Prosecutors are investigating bird flu cats who are at risk of AI infection.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Livestock and Livestock Food and Drug Administration said it has detected 180 AI-infected cats in 11 areas including Sejong, Cheonan, and Anseong-si and 7 metropolitan cities including Seoul.

The Department of Agriculture and Fisheries said it mainly captures long-distance cats within a 10-kilometer radius of the AI virus detection area and collects dead bodies.

If the inspectors inspect for five days after catching up to 13th, the results will come out between 18th and 20th.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has tested 8,100 dogs, cats and pigs in the vicinity of the AI-producing farms.http://www.ytn.co.kr/_ln/0102_201701031350222915

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The Ministry of Agriculture and Food ... No artificial slaughtering plan "
Enter the article 2017-01-03 14:16
..The government plans to investigate whether AI is infected by capturing part of the cats, mainly focusing on the high incidence of avian influenza (AI).

Lee Joon-won, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Livestock and Livestock Food, will hold a briefing at the Sejong government office on March 3 and plan to inspect 10 AI in seven major metropolitan cities including eleven cities, .

The catch criteria are Sejong City, Gyeonggi Anseong, Yeoju, Icheon, Chungbuk Province, and Jincheon where the AI has been found.




According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, all of the 1839 cases of AI, including dogs, cats, and pigs, on AI farms and nearby farms, were all negative.

However, since the case of a cats infected with AI was revealed at a home in Pocheon instead of a farm, it is said that wild cats are likely to have been exposed to AI by feeding on birds.

"There was a case in which AI antibodies were detected in 2014, but at that time there were many cases of feeding chickens with AI in poultry farms to dogs, but now this is prohibited, "In that sense, I see cat infections as a special case."

The results of the survey are expected to come in the middle of the month considering the capture period (3 ~ 13 days) and the inspection period (average 5 days).

Earlier, the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries said it had no plans to artificially capture cats and dogs and to slaughter them, considering possession of violations of the Animal Protection Act.

However, AI plans to consider slaughtering dogs and cats that have been tested positive for livestock by the Livestock Prevention Act...http://biz.heraldcorp.com/view.php?ud=20170103000627

[sharon sanders]

Food and Agriculture Department "Catching cats in AI area and checking whether they are infected"

Today, 11:56 PM


Food and Agriculture Department "Catching cats in AI area and checking whether they are infected"
Input 2017.01.03 (13:33) | (13:43) Internet News |
The authorities are planning to capture the cats and collect their bodies to check whether they are infected with AI.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries said it plans to capture the cats and collect their dead bodies from 18 areas where AI has been found until today. The area is divided into 11 cities, counties, and villages including Seoul, six metropolitan cities, Sejong City, Anseong, Yeoju, Icheon, Pyeongtaek, Pocheon, Chungcheongnam-do, Asan, Cheonan, Chungcheongbukdo and Jincheon.


More than 180 people from all over the world will check whether they are infected with AI. Kim Yong-sang, director of the Anti-Virus Control Division, said, "I caught the criterion by capturing within a radius of 10 km of the highly pathogenic AI virus."

The AI inspection process is first performed by the city / provincial bureaus in each city, county, and county, and then the first inspection is conducted.

A total of 1,839 antigens, including dogs, cats and pigs, were reported to have been confirmed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries on November 16, last year, when AI first occurred, The case of H5N6 type AI has not been confirmed yet.

According to the results of the Pokcheon Gyeonggi-do province, where the highly pathogenic H5N6 type AI was confirmed from cats, 142 people from neighboring villages and 12 people with infection-related contacts did not reveal any specific information.http://news.kbs.co.kr/news/view.do?ncd=3404836

This source says they are "checking" 180 animals.

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Here is an English version of the above stories:

Posted : 2017-01-03 16:52 Updated : 2017-01-03 19:16 Gov't to test stray cats for bird flu By Kim Rahn Quarantine authorities will test stray cats for avian influenza after a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu was found in three dead cats. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said Tuesday that by next week the quarantine authorities will catch and test 10 stray cats each from seven regions hit hard by the infectious virus that has resulted in the culling of more than 30 million chickens nationwide. snip So far, other mammals near the virus-affected chicken farms, including 1,830 dogs, pigs and cats, have tested negative. more.. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2017/01/116_221336.html hat tip Michael Coston