Gert van der Hoek
In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
Taiwan, unconfirmed, from forum; if there is an outbreak of an illness in poultry, this could be AI but also ND (Newcastle Disease)
China: Suspected AI in poultry in Jiangsu Province
11/24/08 ARGUS--An industry forum included a posting dated November 24 by a Xuzhou farmer who posted a claim that in Hai?an and Taidong cities, a major outbreak of H5N1 Re-4 avian influenza (AI) has killed up to 10 million poultry birds. The farmer asked other forum members to verify the claim.
Another farmer from an unspecified region of Jiangsu Province said that there are indeed deaths due to AI but that they are neither massive nor uncommon. That farmer claimed that the fatality rate was between 10-20% and that egg production rates have fallen drastically. He also wrote that county-level authorities do not dare probe the matter and thus have not taken any action.
According to the posting, AI has reportedly circulated widely across various parts of the province, and has not been dealt with since February this year. One forum member from Taidong implied that he was not aware of the outbreak. No further information was provided.
http://bbs.jbzyw.com/read.php?tid-31992.html
http://aidailydigest.blogspot.com/
translation of the forum:
http://translate.google.com/transla...?tid-31992.html&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
China: Suspected AI in poultry in Jiangsu Province
11/24/08 ARGUS--An industry forum included a posting dated November 24 by a Xuzhou farmer who posted a claim that in Hai?an and Taidong cities, a major outbreak of H5N1 Re-4 avian influenza (AI) has killed up to 10 million poultry birds. The farmer asked other forum members to verify the claim.
Another farmer from an unspecified region of Jiangsu Province said that there are indeed deaths due to AI but that they are neither massive nor uncommon. That farmer claimed that the fatality rate was between 10-20% and that egg production rates have fallen drastically. He also wrote that county-level authorities do not dare probe the matter and thus have not taken any action.
According to the posting, AI has reportedly circulated widely across various parts of the province, and has not been dealt with since February this year. One forum member from Taidong implied that he was not aware of the outbreak. No further information was provided.
http://bbs.jbzyw.com/read.php?tid-31992.html
http://aidailydigest.blogspot.com/
translation of the forum:
http://translate.google.com/transla...?tid-31992.html&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8