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Pingtung duck farm stained with H5N2 bird flu 5 551
2018/01/01 18:19 Huang Yuren's Comprehensive Report / Pingtung County
Pingtung County Animal Epidemic Prevention Institute conducted the "Sampling of Ducks at Staged Stage 1 of the Bird Flu Preventive Measures for Intensified Avian Influenza Campaign" and today (January 1) confirmed the positive H5N2 subtype HPAI at a meat duck farm in one area of Baoliao Township The Animal Epidemic Prevention Station started the epidemic prevention mechanism according to the standard operating procedures and went to the field to execute the culling operation to cull 5,510 ducks. And supervise the industry to complete the field cleaning and disinfection work, reduce the risk of epidemic situation. In addition, monitoring and sampling of poultry farms within a radius of 1 km have been started simultaneously to confirm the poultry health and virus-free activities in the surrounding area.
Pingdong Animal Epidemic Prevention Director Li Yongwen said that the duck animal is one of the important preserved animals of bird flu, no obvious clinical symptoms of infection, only the occurrence of food intake, water intake or egg laying rate decline and so on, so the owner should Daily observation of the poultry health situation in the field, in case of previous exposures or abnormal increase in mortality, animal epidemic prevention agencies should take the initiative to inform the clinic to help identify possible causes to reduce the loss and reduce the risk of epidemics. Pingtung County will step up monitoring and sampling of bird flu and urge the industry to cooperate with the quarantine authorities in collecting the suspected cases and find out the suspected cases in an early stage so as to promptly handle and stop the spread of the epidemic. (Pingtung County Animal Epidemic Prevention Center)
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