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**Shiloh** · December 16, 2008, 10:52 PM

Re: Taiwan: H5N2 reported in Tainan County

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Burst of avian flu? 蘇煥智：確有縣市檢體送驗強調台南縣無疫情 Su Huan-chih: there are cities and counties to send samples to stress testing in Tainan County, no epidemic

(2008/12/17 11:30)
Reporters Kangren Jun / Taipei

台灣平面媒體爆料台南縣某養雞場爆發禽流感疫情，農委會卻為大三通在即隱匿疫情，台南縣長蘇煥智今（17）日在立法院民進黨團召開記者會強調，「台南縣沒有疫情、沒有檢體送檢、也沒有雞隻被大量撲殺」，蘇煥智說，確實有某一縣市有檢體送檢，「但是目前沒有結論，我也不方便說是哪一縣市」，蘇煥智強調，這篇報導已經讓台南縣的雞農群情激憤，對養雞戶造成相當大的打擊。 Taiwan's print media bid chicken farm in Tainan County outbreak of bird flu, but the Council of Agriculture for the big three epidemic hiding around the corner, this Tainan County Magistrate Su Huan-chih (17) at the Mission of the Democratic Progressive Party Legislative Yuan held a press conference stressed that "in Tainan County no epidemic and no samples will be inspected, and no large number of chickens were culled, "Su Huan-chih said that there are certain counties and cities submitted samples," but there is no conclusion, I would not say which cities and counties to facilitate "Su Huan-chih stressed that the report has given way to Tainan County's public revulsion chicken farmers, chicken farmers have been considerable blow.

原本民進黨立委涂醒哲、陳亭妃以及蔡同榮等人，還以該篇報導抨擊農委會迎合馬政府大三通隱匿疫情，不過台南縣長蘇煥智隨後召開記者會指報導錯誤，反而讓涂醒哲等人有點尷尬。 Shing-Jer Twu was the Democratic Progressive Party legislator, Chen Ting-Fei Chai, as well as others, the article also criticized the Council of Agriculture reported that the Macedonian government to meet the big three epidemic hidden, but the Tainan County Magistrate Su Huan-chih then held a press conference report refers to the error, but let others Shing-Jer Twu A little embarrassing.

對於「自由時報」該篇報導中提到台南縣有禽流感疫情，而且還具體提到台南一處養雞場雞隻全部遭到撲殺，蘇煥智說，「報導確實與事實不符」，蘇煥智強調，養雞場如果要執行大量撲殺的行為，必須經過家畜防治所，報導所言「完全沒這件事！」 "Liberty Times," The article reports that Tainan County has bird flu, but also a specific reference to a chicken farm in Tainan all the chickens have been culled, Su Huan-chih said, "the report really is not true," Su Huan-chih stressed that the If the chicken farm to cull a large number of the implementation of the act, must be the prevention and treatment of livestock, the report said, "It has not given the matter!"

蘇煥智說，就他所知，「目前確實有某縣市有檢體在檢驗中，至於檢體是不是H5N2？目前結果尚未出來，我只能說有這樣的一個案例在檢驗中，但是農委會還沒有結論，因此哪個縣市我不方便表達」。 Su Huan-chih said that to his knowledge, "At present, there are certain cities and counties in the test sample, the sample As it is not H5N2? Current results are not yet out, I can only say that there is such a case in the test, but the Council of Agriculture Conclusions have not yet, so I am not at liberty to express what counties and cities. "

蘇煥智說，這篇報導讓台南縣的養雞戶群情沸騰、非常不滿，已經對養雞夜造成非常大的打擊。 Su Huan-chih said that the report so that the farmers in Tainan County, boiling emotions, very dissatisfied with the chicken on the night has caused a great blow.

至於稍早召開記者會抨擊農委會隱匿台南縣疫情的立委陳亭妃則呼籲農委會，既然已經有縣市將檢體送驗，就應該趕快公佈到底是哪縣市，不要讓無辜的雞農受害，至於立委涂醒哲則說，重點不是哪一個縣市，而是農委會有沒有為馬政府隱匿疫情。 As for the earlier criticism of the Council of Agriculture held a press conference hidden epidemic of Tainan County Legislator Chen Ting-Fei called the Council of Agriculture, as cities and counties will have samples tested, it should immediately announce which cities and counties in the end, do not let innocent chicken Farmers suffer, as legislators, said Shing-Jer Twu, which is not focused on counties and cities, but the Council of Agriculture for the Macedonian government has not hidden epidemic.

**Giuseppe** · December 17, 2008, 03:30 AM

Re: Taiwan: H5N2 reported in Tainan County

Bird flu suspected in Taiwan [Reuters]

Bird flu suspected in Taiwan

TAIWAN is investigating a suspected bird flu case following mass poultry deaths, agricultural officials said on Wednesday, while rejecting local press reports of a possible second case.

Inspectors are looking at reasons for the sudden death of poultry on Oct 21 in Luzhu in Kaohsiung county, the Council of Agriculture said on a statement.

The H5N2 strain of avian influenza, which is less serious than H5N1 that has spread to humans, is a suspected case.

'Presently, tests are still being done, and the inspection and quarantine bureau of our council will keep checking, to understand the whole matter,' the statement said.

'Because the results aren't final, it was inappropriate to make a casual announcement, but it's not a matter of hiding outbreak information,' said the statement, which was issued following a flurry of media queries.

Only one documented case of H5N2 is known to have jumped to humans.

Bird flu may also have killed chickens in Taiwan's Tainan county in November, the Liberty Times newspaper said on Wednesday, accusing the government of a cover-up.

'According to our understanding, the Council of Agriculture was afraid of impacting links with China and tried to hide the case,' the paper said.

Agricultural officials said the news report was false and would hurt the county's poultry industry.

Taiwan and China, which claims the self-ruled island as its own, launched new direct flights, opened new cargo routes and began direct postal links on Monday following negotiations in November after six decades of political tension.

Bird flu is most common during cool, damp winters. So far this winter, it has killed two people, in Indonesia and Egypt, and made two people ill in Indonesia and Cambodia.

Eastern China's Jiangsu province has culled 377,000 poultry after laying hens tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus, the Chinese agriculture ministry said on Tuesday in the first reported case since the early summer.

-- REUTERS

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**Shiloh** · December 17, 2008, 08:26 AM

Re: Taiwan: H5N2 reported in Tainan County

Source: http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_...&lang=eng_news

Taiwan government denies outbreak of lethal bird flu
Taiwan News, Staff Writer
2008-12-17 08:45 PM

The Council of Agriculture rejected media reports Wednesday that a dangerous type of bird flu had erupted in Tainan County, following a recent outbreak in Hong Kong.

The Chinese-language Liberty Times daily wrote on its front page Wednesday that the COA was covering up the outbreak in order not to disrupt Monday?s opening of daily direct air and shipping links with China. Last week?s case in Hong Kong was believed to be caused by eggs smuggled in from China.

COA chairman Chen Wu-hsiung said no abnormally large amounts of chickens had died in Tainan County.

He also rejected accusations of a cover-up, saying discussion of bird flu cases is in the hands of a 23-member panel of experts. ?It?s not possible to silence all of them,? he said.

Because final test results had not come in yet, there had been no public announcement about the bird flu investigations, Chen explained.

Tainan County chief Su Huan-chih, a member of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party, also denied the newspaper's allegations.

Lawmakers from the region said they had received anxious messages from chicken, duck and geese farmers worried about the repercussions on their business.

There was no bird flu of the dangerous H5N1 type in Taiwan, and there was no evidence of the H5N2 type, which in any event could not jump from chickens to humans, said Lin Ting, the vice chairman of the Department of Health?s Center for Disease Control.

The CDC recently tested eight Taiwanese, including recent visitors to China and Vietnam, for H5N1, but they all proved negative, Lin said.

Tests were still in progress on the death of chickens at a farm in Luchu, Kaohsiung County, in October, COA officials said. An estimated 400 birds, or 3 percent of the total at the farm, died, and preliminary reports indicated it might have been a case of the less dangerous H5N2 type. The other 10,000 animals were killed as a precaution.

**Shiloh** · December 17, 2008, 09:54 PM

Re: Taiwan: H5N2 reported in Tainan County

Source: http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/n...No-persons.htm

Updated Thursday, December 18, 2008 9:30 am TWN, The China Post news staff and CNA

No persons affected by avian flu in Taiwan: DOH

KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan -- There have been no infections of the severe and virulent H5N1 avian flu cases in Taiwan to date, officials with the Center for Disease Control (CDC) under the Cabinet-level Department of Health (DOH) said yesterday.

There are also no confirmed cases of an outbreak of low-pathogenic H5N2 avian flu virus among poultry in Taiwan, CDC Deputy Director Lin Ting said.

He added that ]there is no evidence that the H5N2 can jump species to infect humans.

As of yesterday, the CDC had received reports of eight suspected cases of H5N1 infections in humans. Two persons involved in the cases had visited China, one had visited Vietnam and five had been in close contact with poultry, Lin said.

"Examination results showed that five cases were seasonal influenza virus infections and the remaining three tested negative for any flu viruses," Lin said.

He stressed that none of the suspected cases were H5N1 infections.

Quoting data released by the World Health Organization (WHO), Lin said more than 60 percent of confirmed human H5N1 cases have had close contact with poultry.

He advised local people to avoid contact with wild birds or chickens when they travel to countries or areas where H5N1 outbreaks among humans or animals have been reported, particularly Hong Kong, China's Jiangsu province, Indonesia, Egypt and Cambodia.

Meanwhile, Lin said an outbreak of low pathogenic H5N2 avian flu is not uncommon among poultry. But the infection usually does not have a grave impact on animals. Even if the virus mutates to a high-pathogenic strain, it would only affect poultry, he said.

To date, Lin said, only a few Japanese officials working in animal quarantine jobs have tested positive for weak H5N2 antibodies after slaughtering chickens infected with the virus. "None of the workers have developed the disease, which indicates that H5N2 is unlikely to infect humans," he added.

Meanwhile, Magistrate Su Huang-chih of Tainan County categorically denied a local media report that there was an outbreak of avian flu in November in the southern county.

"The report is totally groundless.

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There has been no bird flu in Tainan County and not a single chicken has been killed as a result of the disease," Su said at a news conference that was also attended by lawmakers Chen Ting-fei and Lee Chun-yee of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).

According to the report carried by the Liberty Times, a large number of chickens raised in a poultry farm in Tainan were confirmed by a government laboratory to have died from the H5N2 bird flu virus last month.

But the Council of Agriculture (COA) tried to conceal the information so as not to mar the launch of direct daily air and regular shipping and postal links on Dec. 15, the report alleged.

Legislator Chen voiced grave concern that Taiwan will be exposed to great risk if the COA fails to fulfill its duty now that direct transport links across the Taiwan Strait have been established.

As bird flu has also broken out in Hong Kong and China recently, the COA must quickly detect the origin of the H5N2 virus to help protect public health, Chen said.

Answering questions at the Legislative Yuan, COA chief Chen Wu-hsiung again denied that large numbers of chickens have died in Tainan County in recent months.

He also rejected allegations that the COA has attempted to hide information about a possible bird flu epidemic in southern Taiwan, stressing that the council will make public the results of its investigation once it is complete.

In response to media reports that bird flu had broken out in Tainan and Kaohsiung counties, COA officials said that a joint investigation by the COA and the Tainan County authorities has ruled out any cases in Tainan.

However, the officials admitted that at Luchu township in neighboring Kaohsiung County, some 400 chickens at a poultry farm had died in late October and that some others were found in November.

They noted that only around 3 percent of the chickens had died, a fatality rate that is within the normal range for chicken farms and far lower than the average mortality rate caused by the H5N2 virus.

Despite the fact that the chickens did not develop signs of respiratory disease -- a key symptom of an H5N2 epidemic -- animal health officials decided to cull all the remaining 18,000 chickens in an effort to prevent any adverse consequences.

The COA officials denied that they had tried to keep the situation secret, saying that a panel of 23 experts had still not completed an investigation into the deaths and that the delay had nothing to do with the opening of direct cross-Taiwan Strait transport links.

**Treyfish** · December 17, 2008, 09:56 PM

Re: China: Jiangsu, new avian influenza h5n1 poultry epizootics

Flustered Taiwan faction reassuring medicine

Gaoxiong, Tainan spread the bird flu epidemic, the populace worry the epidemic situation spread, the initiation are panic. Taiwan Executive Yuan many organizations acted to distribute ?the reassuring medicine? yesterday, stressed that Taiwan has not erupted the bird flu epidemic situation, the entire Taiwan was still ?the non-quarantine area?, a partial place chicken house's chicken fatality count in the normal range, and said that the H5N2 bird flu virus will not infect the humanity, appealed that the populace do not be panic.

Will refer to H5N2 not to teach other people
Hygienic bureau chief Ye Jinchuan indicated that at present occurs the H5N2 epidemic situation basic is the low cause of disease, will not infect gives the humanity, also still will not change suddenly will be H5N1, the chicken only infects the H5N2 virus, after the chicken will boil thoroughly, had been possible to feel at ease edible, will ask the populace not to be excessively panic. Vigorous sickness control bureau Assistant Commissioner Lin Ding pointed out that H5N2 and H5N1 were two kind of different bird flu viruses, the H5N1 bird flu virus itself still in the sudden change, human who at present might have the limit taught other people, not yet caused the large-scale person to teach other people the epidemic situation, H5N2 is apart from birds-to-human transmission's distance to be farther. Taiwan does not have the H5N1 bird flu's human case, although at present has the feather H5N2 epidemic situation, but does not have the evidence to demonstrate that can initiate the humanity to dye the epidemic disease. For the guard epidemic situation dissemination, with mainland stretch of water apart's Jinmen, the county zoology and botany guard was strengthening to the feed farm disinfection and the monitor, the zoology and botany guards against the quarantine station also in the "mini three links" flood peak wharf to the inward passenger shoe sole, the tension bar type baggage wheel to take the disinfectant measures. But the Jiayi County domestic animal illness sickness dispensary attacks examines in the area of jurisdiction hundred chicken farms, the Gaoxiong livestock hygiene examination center appealed that the populace do not buy the origin unclear meat product, does not smuggle the animal, does not go to the quarantine area visit bird birds and beasts field and so on, and coordinates the injection influenza vaccine guard.

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**Treyfish** · December 17, 2008, 10:04 PM

Re: Taiwan: H5N2 reported in Tainan County

Flustered Taiwan faction reassuring medicine

Gaoxiong, Tainan spread the bird flu epidemic, the populace worry the epidemic situation spread, the initiation are panic. Taiwan Executive Yuan many organizations acted to distribute ?the reassuring medicine? yesterday, stressed that Taiwan has not erupted the bird flu epidemic situation, the entire Taiwan was still ?the non-quarantine area?, a partial place chicken house's chicken fatality count in the normal range, and said that the H5N2 bird flu virus will not infect the humanity, appealed that the populace do not be panic.

Will refer to H5N2 not to teach other people
Hygienic bureau chief Ye Jinchuan indicated that at present occurs the H5N2 epidemic situation basic is the low cause of disease, will not infect gives the humanity, also still will not change suddenly will be H5N1, the chicken only infects the H5N2 virus, after the chicken will boil thoroughly, had been possible to feel at ease edible, will ask the populace not to be excessively panic. Vigorous sickness control bureau Assistant Commissioner Lin Ding pointed out that H5N2 and H5N1 were two kind of different bird flu viruses, the H5N1 bird flu virus itself still in the sudden change, human who at present might have the limit taught other people, not yet caused the large-scale person to teach other people the epidemic situation, H5N2 is apart from birds-to-human transmission's distance to be farther. Taiwan does not have the H5N1 bird flu's human case, although at present has the feather H5N2 epidemic situation, but does not have the evidence to demonstrate that can initiate the humanity to dye the epidemic disease. For the guard epidemic situation dissemination, with mainland stretch of water apart's Jinmen, the county zoology and botany guard was strengthening to the feed farm disinfection and the monitor, the zoology and botany guards against the quarantine station also in the "mini three links" flood peak wharf to the inward passenger shoe sole, the tension bar type baggage wheel to take the disinfectant measures. But the Jiayi County domestic animal illness sickness dispensary attacks examines in the area of jurisdiction hundred chicken farms, the Gaoxiong livestock hygiene examination center appealed that the populace do not buy the origin unclear meat product, does not smuggle the animal, does not go to the quarantine area visit bird birds and beasts field and so on, and coordinates the injection influenza vaccine guard.

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**Shiloh** · December 18, 2008, 07:45 AM

Re: Taiwan: H5N2 reported in Tainan County

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Suspected bird flu outbreak causes tens of millions in losses: COA
Central News Agency
2008-12-18 04:24 PM

A suspected outbreak of bird flu reported recently in southern Taiwan has caused the local poultry industry tens of million of New Taiwan dollars in losses, the Council of Agriculture (COA) estimated Thursday.

COA Minister Chen Wu-hsiung reiterated that Taiwan should be considered free of bird flu unless a second test of the suspected case turns up positive.

The council has asked Taiwan's representative office in Japan help communicate with Japanese authorities following their decision to suspend poultry meat imports from Taiwan over the incident, Chen said.

On Wednesday, the COA reported that approximately 400 chickens were found dead at a poultry farm in Luchu township, Kaohsiung County in late October and that preliminary findings showed the birds had been infected with low-pathogenic H5N2 bird flu virus -- a strain that is not known to jump to humans.

A reexamination is still under way to determine the cause of the deaths. All the remaining 18,000 chickens at the farm were culled as a precautionary measure, according to the COA.

The COA disclosed the information in an attempt to clarify a media report that accused the COA of trying to cover up a bird flu outbreak.

Japan announced later that day that it will halt poultry meat imports from Taiwan on a temporary basis to prevent the H5N2 bird flu virus from entering the country.

Hsu Tien-lai, head of the COA's Animal Husbandry Department, said Thursday that even if the second test ruled out a bird flu infection, Japanese authorities will not resume the imports immediately but will first conduct an evaluation, which can take several months.

COA statistics show that the poultry meat and egg exports from Taiwan to Japan are valued at around US$28 million per year.

In the first 11 months of this year, Taiwan exported to Japan 4,733 tons of duck meat worth US$22.86 million, 1,758 tons of chicken meat worth US$2.19 million, and 639 tons of eggs worth US$2.48 million, according to the COA.

**Sally Furniss** · December 19, 2008, 03:08 AM

Re: Taiwan: H5N2 reported in Tainan County

City to sell the normal price of chicken meat or not

Taiwan reported suspected poultry infected with low pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N2; Tainan City Government said today that the City of traditional markets to sell chicken to normal, they are not aware of prices, the city has not heard that chicken farmers complain about the sale of suspected bird flu Troubles.

City said that the chicken farm in Tainan City only 34 games, mostly in Central and Southern Annan to the size and number of farms, and a far cry from the Tainan County.

Chicken farm in Tainan City is a "white chickens", sold more than middle and northern part of the traditional market of selling chicken is chicken, "colored chickens"; said the city government, be it traditional or chicken farmers market, not Came as a result of this wave of suspected bird flu problems.

The Tainan City Animal Disease Prevention said that the chicken farm in Tainan City and testing droppings of migratory birds, the normal procedure Rengyi inspection found no Yizhuang

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**Commonground** · December 20, 2008, 09:50 AM

Re: Taiwan: H5N2 reported in Tainan County

Direct loss ultra 5,000,000 avian flu hit eastern Taiwan egg industry

2008-12-19 8:57:18

2008-12-19 8:57:18

Yesterday, Su, along supermarkets in Shanghai and east from Taiwan, Hai Chegui their eggs.

并且从昨日下午开始江苏的东台作出规定，凡是现在从东台向外运输相关禽类的车辆都将扣留检查。

From yesterday afternoon and Jiangsu to provide for Taiwan's east, from the East who is now Taiwan's outward transport of poultry-related vehicles will be detained for examination.

东台市林牧业局副局长金山坦言：?估计这次禽流感的直接经济损失超过了500万。?

Dongtai Lin Jinshan, deputy director of animal husbandry bureau said frankly: "The bird flu is estimated that the direct economic losses of more than 5,000,000."

整个产业链遭受打击

The whole industry chain hit

从昨日下午开始，为防止带有禽流感的家禽流出，东台市政府规定对于向外运输的都将予以扣留检查。

From the beginning of yesterday afternoon, in order to prevent an avian flu out of poultry, Dongtai required by the Government for transport out of the examination will be detained.

据金山介绍东台市禽业的产业链是从苗鸡开始的。

According to the poultry industry Dongtai Jinshan introduced the industry chain from the beginning of the Miao Ji.

农户首先从附近或是山东、河北、北京等地购进苗鸡，再进行圈养。

First of all, or farmers from the nearby Shandong, Hebei, Beijing and other places to buy Miao Ji, another captive.

在养殖的过程中农户购买饲料商的预混料，成规模的农户在预混料的基础上添加些自己的配方，在蛋鸡成熟之后进行鸡蛋销售。

In the process of farming households to buy feed premix business, as the scale of the farmers in the premix on the basis of their own formula to add more, in the mature laying hens after the sale of eggs.

蛋鸡的周期一般是500天，在这之后母鸡就将被卖到沪宁一带或当地屠宰，这样循环下去。

Layers of the general cycle of 500 days after the hen will be sold along the Shanghai-Nanjing, or the local slaughter, so the cycle continues.

三聚氰胺曾给东台禽蛋养殖业中鸡蛋这个环节造成了影响，而禽流感带给东台的打击是整个产业链。

Melamine given East Taiwan breeding eggs in the egg industry had an impact on this link, and the avian flu to Taiwan's east against the whole industrial chain.

这次当地的种鸡场、饲料商、蛋鸡养殖户、生鸡屠宰场等相关产业都将受到不同程度的打击。

This kind of local chicken farms, feed, layer farmers, slaughterhouse live chickens, and other related industries will be varying degrees of combat.

?据估计直接的经济损失将超过500万元。?

"It is estimated that direct economic losses to more than 5,000,000 yuan."

农户在这次禽流感中损失最为严重。

The farmers in bird flu in the most serious losses.

金山表示，江苏政府和农户之间达成了协议，按照扑杀一只鸡赔偿10元钱，两个蛋等于一只鸡的方案，对受损失的农户进行赔偿。

Jinshan said, Jiangsu between the government and farmers reached an agreement, a chicken cull in accordance with the compensation money to 10 yuan, equivalent to two eggs a chicken of the program, farmers who suffer a loss of compensation.

赔偿款项将于近期全部直接打入农户银行账户中。

Compensation payments will be in the near future all farmers to enter the bank account.

特供鸡蛋遭遇下架

Special experience for the eggs off the shelf

禽流感只在个体养殖蛋鸡中发现，金山表示，并没有波及到当地的养殖公司。

Bird flu in the only individual breeding hens were found, said Kingsoft has not spread to the local aquaculture Corporation.

但是东台、海安两地发现禽流感的消息还是给东台市花凤禽业有限公司带来了很大的打击。

But the east of Taiwan, MSC found that the two bird flu information or to the poultry industry phoenix spend Dongtai Co., Ltd. is a big blow.

在产自东台的鸡蛋中，最有名的要属?花凤?牌鸡蛋，据了解这种精心培养出来的鸡蛋是江苏鲜蛋类唯一获得绿色食品证书的品牌。

In the east of Taiwan from the eggs, the most well-known to be a "Feng Hua" brand eggs, according to well-trained to understand that the eggs are eggs, Jiangsu was the only category of green food certificate brands.

从2003年3月开始花凤鸡蛋就被选为全国人大、政协会议的特供用蛋，不过这两天花凤禽业却开心不起来了。

From the beginning of March 2003 to spend on the egg-feng was elected the National People's Congress, CPPCC sessions to use for special eggs, but the two smallpox in the poultry industry phoenix is not happy again.

?三聚氰胺给鸡蛋造成的影响并不是很大，?东台市花凤禽业有限公司总经理杨爱东叹了口气，?不过这次禽流感给公司的打击很大。?据了解，花凤禽业专门做超市供应，并且主要供应南京、无锡、上海等地。

"Melamine egg to the impact is not great," the poultry industry phoenix spend Dongtai Co., Ltd. Ai-Dong Yang, general manager sighed, "but the bird flu to crack down on big companies." It is understood that the poultry industry phoenix to spend so special Supermarket suppliers, and a major supplier of Nanjing, Wuxi, Shanghai and other places.

就在昨天，全国超市里的花凤鸡蛋全部惨遭下架。

Just yesterday, the national flower Fung supermarket eggs were all under the plane.

杨爱东透露，光是昨日的损失就超过了50万。

Ai-Dong Yang revealed that just yesterday the loss of more than 500,000.

现在一些马上要超过保值期的鸡蛋只有拿去喂猪了。

Now some more than once to preserve and increase the period of the eggs only take the pigs.

杨爱东说，现在公司束手无策，只有等待禽流感警报的解除。

Ai-Dong Yang said the company is now helpless, only waiting for the lifting of the bird flu alert.

平常这个时候都是销售鸡蛋的旺季，公司正在大量囤积鸡蛋准备迎接旺季。

Are common this time of the sale of eggs in the season, is hoarding a large number of eggs prepared for the peak season.

现在只有眼睁睁地看着鸡蛋坏掉。

Only now watched broken eggs.

如果在1个月之内不能解除禽流感的疫情，公司很有可能在这次禽流感中倒下。

If in one month can not lift the bird flu epidemic, the company is likely in the fall of bird flu.

实际上受这次禽流感冲击的还不止花凤禽业一家，在当地有一定规模的东台市登奥禽业养殖场，也未能幸免。

In fact affected by the impact of bird flu has also spent more than a poultry industry phoenix, in a certain local-scale poultry farms Dengao Dongtai, have not been spared.

其供应到外地超市的鸡蛋也在昨日统统遭遇下架。

Its supply to the field of supermarket eggs are all hit shelves yesterday.

大棚种植也受波及

Greenhouse cultivation is also affected

东台当地除了禽蛋养殖之外，比较大的产业就是大棚种植。

In addition to the east of Taiwan local culture eggs, the industry is more greenhouse cultivation.

按理说禽流感和大棚种植搭不上关系，但当地大部分大棚养殖的肥料都是来源于鸡粪。

Reason bird flu and greenhouse cultivation does not take on, but shed most of the local culture are derived from chicken manure fertilizer.

自从禽流感爆发之后，东台市政府对许河、唐洋、富东三镇都进行了严格的控制，就是鸡粪现在也不能运出。

Since the outbreak of bird flu, the Government of Dongtai River Xu and Tang Yang, Fu Tung three towns have been strictly controlled, that is not chicken out now.

这样一来当地的大棚种植所用的肥料，需要从较远的乡镇收购，无形中增加了种植农户们的生产成本。

As a result of local greenhouse cultivation used in fertilizer, far from the township to buy virtually an increase of farmers planting their production costs.

禽流感爆发之后，现在无论是公司还是农户都把大批大批卖不掉的蛋囤积起来。

After the outbreak of bird flu now is whether the company or have a large number of farmers can not sell a large number of eggs hoarding up.

据杨爱东透露，从前只要10块钱一个的鸡蛋框，现在都涨到了15块一个，光是这几天用于购置鸡蛋框的费用都超过了40000元。

According to Ai-Dong Yang said in the past as long as 10 eggs a money box, and now has risen to a 15, just over the past few days for the purchase of an egg box costs are more than 40,000 yuan.

**Sally Furniss** · December 20, 2008, 03:51 PM

Re: Taiwan: H5N2 reported in Tainan County

Bird flu test results of two different materials experts sampling causes hypochondria

* 2008-12-20
* China Times
* 【Central News Agency】

Council of Agriculture announced tonight farms Township Road case is a low pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza virus, not the first time the test results wood disease of high pathogenic. Experts queried, is due to different materials, resulting in different results. Council of Agriculture, Animal Health Research Institute insisted had nothing to do with this.

October 21 in Kaohsiung County Animal Epidemic Prevention reported Township in Kaohsiung County Road, the farm of an unidentified cases, the Council of Agriculture, Animal Health Research Institute build the first test results of patients of high pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza virus; November 12 again check the test results disease material tonight announced a low pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza virus.

Disease experts questioned the two different wood samples, the first dead chickens for the disease, the second is a live, there is no incubation period may be the result of the second test results to low-pathogenic.

In this regard, the Council of Agriculture, Animal Health Research Institute, deputy director of the Shu-Hui Li that has nothing to do.

She said that the first disease sample timber proper nouns should be called "chicken", the first inspection since it is highly pathogenic, then it should be low-pathogenic than the more easily transmitted, but the second time when mining timber disease, death the rate of death is still the normal range of less than 3%, showing that disease-related material and there is no virus, the strength of difference.

Shu-Hui Li further said that the second test also done a more accurate index IVPI vein pathogen inoculation, the value of 0.89, less than 1.2, it can be identified is the low pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza virus.

Accordingly, the Council of Agriculture also said that only to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) informed the second time the test results.

However, a reply on the Shu-Hui Li, scholars said that this is only by analogy, there is no direct answer, after all, two different sampling timber disease.

National Taiwan University's Department of Veterinary Medicine Professor Sui Lai Sau media also questioned if the adoption of the virus nucleic acid test, the results of a maximum of 10 days can be released, two do not drag on for so long (since October 21 to today, December 20 ); "do two months so long and unreasonable." 971220

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**Giuseppe** · December 20, 2008, 03:53 PM

Re: Taiwan: H5N2 reported in Tainan County

Taiwan: COA confirms Luchu bird flu outbreak [Taipei Times]

COA confirms Luchu bird flu outbreak

RESOLVED: While there are no known cases of the H5N2 strain infecting humans, health authorities continued to monitor farms within a 3km radius of the outbreak

By Meggie Lu
STAFF REPORTER
Sunday, Dec 21, 2008

The Council of Agriculture confirmed yesterday an outbreak of a lesser strain of the bird flu virus H5N2 at a chicken farm in Kaohsiung County?s Luchu Township (...).

?The problem has been resolved. Starting in October, the farm was disinfected and we monitored the situation as if it were a highly pathogenic virus. The affected chickens were culled on Nov. 14,? Agriculture Minister Chen Wu-hsiung (...) told a press conference yesterday.

Chen said the results of a second round of samples from the affected chicken farm were confirmed by a panel of experts to be a low-pathogenic strain of H5N2.

Avian influenza has many different subtypes, including H5N1 and H5N2. The H5N1 subtype is highly pathogenic and can cause fever, coughing, sore throat, muscle ache, pneumonia or death when transmitted from birds to humans. There are no reports of H5N2 transmission to humans.

News of the outbreak were first made public by the council at a press conference on Wednesday, during which Deputy Minister Hu Sing-hwa (...) said the council suspected an outbreak had occurred at a Kaohsiung chicken farm, adding that an investigation had been launched on Oct. 21.

Asked why it had taken so long for the test results to be made public, Animal Health Research Institute deputy director Lee Shu-hui (...) said ?the examination requires careful work and is a complex process.?

?Our first results on Nov. 12 showed what looked like a high-pathogenic strain of H5N2, but as less than 3 percent of chickens in the population died, the result did not agree with the lab test,? Lee said.

To ensure they did not miss a potential threat, Lee said her team decided to do a second examination while seeking to avoid causing a panic. She said that as soon as the lab had the slightest evidence that there may have been a bird flu outbreak in October, she informed the council?s Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine to initiate epidemic prevention mechanisms.

While the affected farm was thoroughly disinfected, farms within a radius of 3km have also been monitored since October, she said.

?After viral separation and cultivation, second results showed that the chickens had a H5N2 Intravenous Pathogenicity Index [IVPI] of 0.89, which makes it low-pathogenic,? she said.An IVPI over 1.2 would be high-pathogenic.

Responding to comments by former minister of health Twu Shiing-jer (...) that testing for avian flu would only take one to two days, Lee said that what Twu was referred to was identifying H5N1 contamination in humans.

?I can also have results within two days, but my results may show a negative while a longer cultivation time may show a positive result,? she said.

Regarding the risk to humans, Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine Director-General Watson Sung (...) said there were no known cases of H5N2 mutating into the H5N1 strain, which can affect humans.

This was the only instance of bird flu in Taiwan, Soong said, adding that ?high? or ?low? pathogenic referred to chickens, not humans.

?On Nov. 14, the farm owner voluntarily culled all the chickens as a precautionary measure,? Chen said. ?Now that we have confirmed the results, we will report the case to the World Organization for Animal Health. We will also continue to monitor the 76 chicken farms around the affected farm for three months before applying for poultry exportation to Japan.?

Chen said losses in sales of chicken to Japan would be in the several millions of NT dollars.
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**Shiloh** · December 20, 2008, 03:57 PM

Re: Taiwan: H5N2 reported in Tainan County

Source: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/fron.../21/2003431634

COA confirms Luchu bird flu outbreak
RESOLVED: While there are no known cases of the H5N2 strain infecting humans, health authorities continued to monitor farms within a 3km radius of the outbreak
By Meggie Lu
STAFF REPORTER
Sunday, Dec 21, 2008, Page 1

The Council of Agriculture confirmed yesterday an outbreak of a lesser strain of the bird flu virus H5N2 at a chicken farm in Kaohsiung County?s Luchu Township (路竹).

?The problem has been resolved. Starting in October, the farm was disinfected and we monitored the situation as if it were a highly pathogenic virus. The affected chickens were culled on Nov. 14,? Agriculture Minister Chen Wu-hsiung (陳武雄) told a press conference yesterday.

Chen said the results of a second round of samples from the affected chicken farm were confirmed by a panel of experts to be a low-pathogenic strain of H5N2.

Avian influenza has many different subtypes, including H5N1 and H5N2. The H5N1 subtype is highly pathogenic and can cause fever, coughing, sore throat, muscle ache, pneumonia or death when transmitted from birds to humans. There are no reports of H5N2 transmission to humans.

News of the outbreak were first made public by the council at a press conference on Wednesday, during which Deputy Minister Hu Sing-hwa (胡興華) said the council suspected an outbreak had occurred at a Kaohsiung chicken farm, adding that an investigation had been launched on Oct. 21.

Asked why it had taken so long for the test results to be made public, Animal Health Research Institute deputy director Lee Shu-hui (李淑慧) said ?the examination requires careful work and is a complex process.?

?Our first results on Nov. 12 showed what looked like a high-pathogenic strain of H5N2, but as less than 3 percent of chickens in the population died, the result did not agree with the lab test,? Lee said.

To ensure they did not miss a potential threat, Lee said her team decided to do a second examination while seeking to avoid causing a panic. She said that as soon as the lab had the slightest evidence that there may have been a bird flu outbreak in October, she informed the council?s Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine to initiate epidemic prevention mechanisms.

While the affected farm was thoroughly disinfected, farms within a radius of 3km have also been monitored since October, she said.

?After viral separation and cultivation, second results showed that the chickens had a H5N2 Intravenous Pathogenicity Index [IVPI] of 0.89, which makes it low-pathogenic,? she said.

An IVPI over 1.2 would be high-pathogenic.

Responding to comments by former minister of health Twu Shiing-jer (�?�) that testing for avian flu would only take one to two days, Lee said that what Twu was referred to was identifying H5N1 contamination in humans.

?I can also have results within two days, but my results may show a negative while a longer cultivation time may show a positive result,? she said.

Regarding the risk to humans, Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine Director-General Watson Sung (宋華聰) said there were no known cases of H5N2 mutating into the H5N1 strain, which can affect humans.

This was the only instance of bird flu in Taiwan, Soong said, adding that ?high? or ?low? pathogenic referred to chickens, not humans.

?On Nov. 14, the farm owner voluntarily culled all the chickens as a precautionary measure,? Chen said. ?Now that we have confirmed the results, we will report the case to the World Organization for Animal Health. We will also continue to monitor the 76 chicken farms around the affected farm for three months before applying for poultry exportation to Japan.?

Chen said losses in sales of chicken to Japan would be in the several millions of NT dollars.

**Sally Furniss** · December 20, 2008, 04:15 PM

Re: Taiwan: H5N2 reported in Tainan County

Kaohsiung, Taiwan found that the low pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza expected loss of millions of dollars
At 22:23 on December 20, 2008 Source: China News Network comment

China news agency, Taipei, December 20 (Reporters Lu Mei and Chen Liyu) - Taiwan's "Executive Yuan Agriculture Committee" will be announced on the 20th held a press conference in Kaohsiung County Road Township farm cases identified as low-pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza virus has cf high pathogenic avian influenza immunization specifications to deal with an estimated output value of over 10 million U.S. dollars damage.

According to the briefing, Kaohsiung County Animal Disease Prevention communications received by October 21, a farm of an unidentified路竹cases, pet owners by the audience disinfection, disinfection of chicken manure with lime, two weeks after the death of chickens to stop, for a total of deaths 400.

After testing, the farms identified as cases of low pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza virus, but, mutatis mutandis, the high-pathogenic avian influenza immunization specifications processing, culling of the remaining farms more than 10,000 chickens, and within a radius of three kilometers 76 to conduct a comprehensive disinfection of farms, monitoring, so far has not detected any abnormal mortality of chickens.

"Council of Agriculture" that will be based on "prevention of poultry influenza contingency plans to deal with the manual," the implementation of quarantine measures, in the detection field within a radius of three kilometers of the poultry farms, animal epidemic prevention agencies from the seat of each month, each sample tested, continuous monitoring of three months, and to strengthen communications poultry farms suspected cases and the seizure clinic measures, and has notified the counties and cities to strengthen epidemic prevention measures, and called for poultry industry must be vigilant to guard against avian flu.

In addition, the "Council of Agriculture," Animal Husbandry Department, pointed out that from December 17 reported suspected bird flu news, Japan the same day at noon on the notice to prohibit the import of Japanese goods in Taiwan poultry. To resume the export markets of Japan, it is necessary to monitor the three months, further testing, the results no bird flu in order to apply for import to Japan. According to statistics, Taiwan's sales in Japan in nearly three years of a lame duck, chicken and eggs about an annual output value of 28 million U.S. dollars, by the impact of bird flu, the output value of more than 10 million U.S. dollars will be damaged.

"Council of Agriculture," said that in order to avoid any adverse effect on market price fluctuations, will start to price stability mechanism, damage to the poultry industry to relax the loan amount, but not on subsidies cases.

台湾高雄发现H5N2低病原性禽流感料损千万美元

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**FrenchieGirl** · December 21, 2008, 06:44 AM

Re: Taiwan: H5N2 reported in Tainan County

Below is an opinion piece. Google translated. Emphasis is mine.

http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2008/...1/today-o4.htm

Face up to the bird flu crisis
◎ Li Huiren

Public opinion in the media's continuing concern, the Council of Agriculture has finally admitted Township of Kaohsiung County Road farm is indeed infected with the H5N2 influenza virus, at the same time stressed that it is low pathogenic (LPAI). In fact, countries all over the world in order to block the avian flu virus of the century from the "bird-human transmission" has turned into "human to human," all did not dare to overlook. Therefore, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) called on Member States to occur as long as the H5 or H7, whether low pathogenic or highly pathogenic (HPAI) epidemic must be informed, http://www.oie.int/downld/AVIAN% 20INFLUENZA/A_AI-Asia.htm.

However, a look at Taiwan, claiming that the epidemic has done a very good government officials, went so far as to "H5N2 is a low pathogenic, not to man," this inflow to explain why the statement did not report the epidemic situation. In this regard, I can not fully agree.

Not to inform the OIE, to allow Taiwan from falling into the hidden epidemic of notoriety: OIE notification from the record, located in Africa from Zimbabwe to the Middle East, Iran, Iraq and then to Southeast Asia, Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines, a country which is not Honestly informed of the epidemic? On the other hand, Taiwan, in order "can not be said that some of the secrets", the relevant units have been "low pathogenic avian influenza infection would not give" For this reason, do not want to announce the epidemic, it can, in 2004 Taiwan outbreak of the H5N2 bird flu When the epidemic, why are required to inform the OIE?

"H5N2 mutation will not be as H5N1" This is a stupefying to say: public health from the Director of Health in the Legislative Yuan, Yeh Chin-chuan said: "H5N2 mutation will not be as H5N1", this is simply playing with words, an academic H5N2 Will not be "sudden" as H5N1, but it may be related to other viruses (for example, H6N1) gene into the exchange of H5N1, or become "H5N2 high-pathogenic avian influenza virus", from the low pathogenic H5N2 high pathogenic into this Texas case in the United States on more than one occurrence, Kaohsiung Luzhu the virus, there are four basic amino acids is not it? How high is not pathogenic? The virus gene sequences than the public did not dare to come up with, right?

"The world has not at any particular case is caused by human H5N2 infection," it is not professional to say: in January 2006, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and the National Institute of Infectious Diseases published a survey report pointed out that Japan's territory There are 77 people infected with H5N2 bird flu virus. Director Ye must surely do not know if this important message, or how to say this is not a professional discourse.

"If one day Taiwan, human-to-human bird flu, I do not unexpected," This is a long-term concern about Taiwan's bird flu experts warning that if Taiwan in charge of disease prevention and public health elite deliberately Hiding bird flu, allowing the virus in the country, in the field continue to exchange genes, in turn, "and in", which Taiwan will never fall into an unprecedented danger. ?

(The author has been involved in the production of "chicken danger of the crisis: Tracking bird flu" has been empty white Prize)

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