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(2nd LD) H5N1 bird flu found in S. Korea's capital city
(ATTN: ADDS with the confirmation of deadly bird flu strain)
SEOUL, May 6 (Yonhap) --

The deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza was detected on Tuesday in dead chickens from a bird vivarium in Seoul, government officials said, prompting quarantine officials to decontaminate and limit access to a nearby children's park and open air market.

The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said quarantine officials detected the highly virulent H5N1 strain in the two dead chickens from the bird vivarium located at the Gwangjin ward office in eastern Seoul.
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<TABLE id=tbl_article cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 20px"><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>Officials told bird flu has spread to the Seoul area
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Workers scramble to decontaminate infected aviary

May 07, 2008​

</TD></TR><TR><TD class=actxt id=articleBody style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 18px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 20px; LINE-HEIGHT: 27px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">Despite nonstop efforts to halt the worst outbreak of bird flu ever to hit the country, a new case has hit Korea??s capital city, prompting the slaughter of more than 300 poultry and the quarantining of the bird areas in nearby parks, a government body said yesterday.
Initial tests on two chickens raised in an aviary located in the Gwangjin District Office in eastern Seoul showed that they were infected with the H5 N1 strain of the avian influenza virus, according to officials of the Seoul Metropolitan Government.
The tests were conducted by the National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service. At first, officials were not convinced that the case involved the deadly H5N1 strain. But late yesterday, it was confirmed, government officials said.
Of 58 birds raised in the aviary, including chickens, pheasants, and turkeys, two pheasants died on April 28, followed by a turkey, a golden pheasant and a chicken, officials said. The other infected chicken was killed by quarantine workers .
Officials at the district office said that after the series of mysterious deaths, they asked the national service on Saturday to conduct tests to see whether their deaths were caused by bird flu.
??We suspect that the two infected pheasants found dead on April 28 infected the other birds,?? said Lee Sung, an official of the Seoul metropolitan government. ??The district office officials purchased the pheasants on April 24 at an open market in Seongnam, just south of Seoul.??
In an effort to stop the spread of bird flu in Seoul, the Seoul city government and Gwangjin District Office disinfect the residential area within a 500-meter-radius of the infected vivarium. They also slaughtered 63 fowls in the nearby Children??s Grand Park. The park is only 1.1 kilometers (0.68 miles) away from the infected area.
Workers killed all of the turkeys, pheasants, and chickens in the park and closed the bird area to visitors.
??We are busy taking measures to prevent bird flu from spreading in Seoul,?? said Shin Jae-ik, an official of the Gwangjin District Office.
??We are already finished with disinfection work near the vivarium, the and aviary will be indefinitely closed.??
Additionally, the neighboring, the Seoul Grand Park, decided to close its bird section following the slaughter of a total of 221 birds in the park.
It is about 20 kilometers southwest of the infected aviary.
??To be on the safe side, we killed and buried all chickens, ducks and geese in the park,?? an official declining to be named said.
??We have ordered visitors not to make any contact with birds over the past 10 days.??
Under the urgent quarantine efforts, the Seoul city government also disinfected a total of eight poultry farms in Guro and Gangnam districts to try to stem the outbreak.
The possible spread of bird flu to the nation??s largest city has heightened public fears. With a population of more than 10 million, Seoul and its residents said that they are concerned about the rapid spread of bird flu outbreaks.
??I was totally shocked after I heard about Seoul??s bird flu,?? said 30-year-old office worker Lee Nyeong. ??It??s a very serious issue because Seoul is the symbol of Korea.??
In the meantime, the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries announced that other possible bird flu outbreaks were found in Chuncheon farms in Gangwon Province and Cheonan farms in South Chungcheong Province.
Provincial government officials said that on-site tests were positive for avian influenza at the chicken and duck farms in Chuncheon and Cheonan, leading to the slaughter of 25,000 chickens and ducks.
No bird flu cases have been reported in Gangwon since the first outbreak was reported at a Gimje farm in North Jeolla Province at the beginning of April.
The ministry also confirmed that the virus was found at an Anseong, Gyeonggi, farm, causing the culling of about 100,000 poultry near the infected farm.
Since it was first detected, some 33 confirmed bird flu outbreaks, including the most current Anseong case, have so far been reported in six of nine provinces in the nation: Gyeonggi, South Chungcheong, North and South Jeolla, and North and South Gyeongsang, with more than 6.4 million birds killed.
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Tests confirm bird flu in Seoul The bird flu pandemic that has spread to six of Korea's nine provinces hit Seoul last week, prompting the slaughter of poultry and decontamination efforts in the area.
Tests confirmed that two pheasants that died last week in a vivarium of the Gwangjin ward office in eastern Seoul were found to be infected with the H5 avian influenza, the city government said yesterday.
The district office requested the National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service to conduct an inspection on Saturday after a turkey and two chickens died as well, and was informed of the AI infection Monday evening.
The quarantine service was to confirm later yesterday whether the AI outbreak in Seoul was highly contagious.
The ward office said that it bought the two pheasants from a livestock market in Seongnam in the southeastern outskirts of Seoul on April 24.
"Inspectors have been dispatched to the market to check for additional contamination and to find out how the pheasant got sick," a quarantine official said.
A countermeasures team led by the Agriculture Ministry is also looking into the possibility that waste from the ducks at a lake in Konkuk University, just 450 meters from the ward office, could have passed on the AI virus.
The quarantine team culled and buried 53 chickens in the Gwangjin-gu vivarium and took disinfection and precautionary measures around the area. Those who have visited the vivarium since April 24 were to take blood tests for possible contamination.
Authorities also limited access to the nearby Children's Grand Park, where half a million people have visited on Children's Day, and Gyeongdong market, where live poultry are traded. They also slaughtered nearly 300 birds in the Children's Grand Park and the Grand Park in Gwacheon, south of Seoul.
The countermeasures team has been making decontamination efforts in the eight bird-raising farms around Seoul's boundaries after the first AI infection was reported in early April in Gimje, North Jeolla Province.
As yesterday's announcement marked the first AI outbreak in Seoul, authorities decided to inspect and decontaminate all possible bird-raising places including duck restaurants in the outskirts.
The Seoul City government asked people to take extra caution, wash their hands after returning home and avoid contact with birds. Most of the initial bird flu cases reported this year were centered in the Jeolla region in southwestern Korea. It has since spread through most of the country with bird deaths being reported in Gyeongsang region in the southeast and two cities in Gyeonggi Province, south of Seoul. :tiphat: http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/

 

[Shiloh]

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Source: http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=040000&biid=2008050740088

Bird Flu Spreads to Seoul Region, Eastern Province

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MAY 07, 2008 08:17


○ Bird flu reported in Seoul

The Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry and the Seoul city government confirmed yesterday that bird flu killed pheasants, hens and turkeys in a small zoo in the capital?s Gwangjin ward on April 28.

Authorities said the dead birds tested positive for the H5-type virus, or a mutation of the bird flu virus.

The cage in the ward office where the disease broke out housed 57 birds ranging from hens, ducks, pheasants and turkeys. The rest of the remaining stock was culled.

Another 63 birds spanning 10 breeds were killed at nearby Children?s Grand Park as well as 221 birds spanning 17 breeds at Seoul Grand Park in the southern suburb of Gwacheon. The two parks took preventive measures and put the zoos and their remaining poultry under quarantine.

A ministry official said, ?Children?s Grand Park is 1.2 kilometers from the cage and proved epidemiologically unaffected. To root out the possibility of further contamination, we are conducting quarantine activities on nearby markets as well as the park itself.?

The Gwangjin Ward Office is also facing criticism for acting too late. It first killed turkeys after pheasants died, then culled other birds for two consecutive days following the first killing. The office, however, did not ask for a bird flu test until yesterday.

The Seoul city government checked through community networks if anyone was affected by the disease in the area through contact with the sick birds.

○ Spread traced to small market transactions

Suspected cases of bird flu were also reported in the eastern province of Gangwon. Authorities there said a rural village in Chuncheon had 56 of 73 hens and two of 10 ducks die. A preliminary test showed they had the virus and a thorough investigation is underway.

Furthermore, checkpoints on major roads are inspecting vehicles transporting poultry and disinfecting them.

Most contamination, however, is spread through small transactions at traditional markets, which poses difficulty in tracking how the disease spreads.

The pheasants that died at Seoul?s Gwangjin Ward, for example, were purchased in a traditional poultry market in the southern suburb of Seongnam on April 24. But it is also possible that wild ducks living nearby might have infected them.

The outbreak in Gangwon Province was also traced to small transactions at traditional markets, since the poultry raised by farmers near the affected household were found negative.

 

[Shiloh]

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Source: http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200805/200805070018.html
Updated May.7,2008 09:57 KST

The Real Threat Is Bird Flu

All of the chickens, turkeys and pheasants being raised at a pen owned by a district office in eastern Seoul have perished since April 28 and authorities have confirmed that avian influenza was responsible for the death of the pheasants there. Last Sunday, scores of chickens and ducks died in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, while authorities have confirmed that bird flu was the reason behind the deaths of chickens and ducks in Ulsan, as well as Yeongcheon in North Gyeongsang Province, Suseong district in Daegu, and Anseong in Gyeonggi Province. In just a month, the bird flu outbreak, which was first detected in North Jeolla Province in early April, has spread through the entire country except Jeju Island. So far, 6.5 million chickens and ducks have been culled, a lot more than the 5.2 million that were destroyed during the last bird flu epidemic in 2003-2004.

The cases of bird flu detected in Chuncheon, Yeongcheon and Seoul were passed on from a small handful of chickens and pheasants that were bought in open-air markets. The fact that infected chickens and ducks are being sold in open-air markets signifies that bird flu has penetrated deep into our midst. There are even experts who fear that bird flu might spread to common city-dwelling pigeons.

Until now, the disease erupted only during the cold winter months, but this year it?s happening in temperatures above 25 degrees Celsius. Nor did past outbreaks kill ducks en masse, but that is what is happening now. Experts are not ruling out that the strain this time is a mutated version of the virus that is becoming endemic to Korea. If that is true, then human infections are a real threat. Already, one soldier who took part in the cull showed signs of possible infection.

If avian influenza does spread to humans, the damage it would cause would be horrific. Since 2003, 379 humans have been infected with bird flu in 14 countries, mainly in Southeast Asia, and 63 percent of them or 239 have died. Even the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned back in 2005 that a million people could be hospitalized and 30,000 of them die if bird flu becomes transmissible from human to human here.

Out of the 300 million Americans who have consumed U.S. beef, not a single one has contracted Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human variant of mad cow disease. But out of the people who took part in prevention and culling efforts during the 2003-2004 avian influenza epidemic, four contracted bird flu. This was revealed belatedly in 2005 since the four had taken medication and shown no symptoms. Right now, the entire country is in uproar due to exaggerated mad cow disease fears. But the real threat we face is bird flu, which has crawled up right next to us. The government and the public must wake up.

 

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Commentary

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/05060801/H5N1_Seoul.html

Commentary

H5N1 Spread to Children's Zoos in Seoul Korea

Recombinomics Commentary 08:29
May 6, 2008

The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said tests conducted on four birds that started dying off from late April showed they were contaminated with the H5 avian influenza virus.

The bird vivarium located at the Gwangjin ward office in eastern Seoul raised 57 chickens, ducks, pheasants and turkeys. The outbreak marks the first time that the avian influenza has hit Seoul since quarantine officials received reports of wholescale bird deaths on April 1.

As a precaution, officials also slaughtered 63 birds at Children's Grand Park, a major amusement park about 1.2 kilometers (less than a mile) from the outbreak site, and 191 birds at Seoul Grand Park, another theme park south of the capital.

The above comments describe the spread of H5 to Seoul (see satellite map). The death of the birds indicates the H5 will be confirmed as H5N1. Thus far all H5 infections in Korea this year have been H5N1. There have been no reports of low path H5. Similarly the H5 detected in northern Japan have also been H5N1, further supporting the likelihood that H5N1 has reached the South Korean capital.

A recent report on the 2007 outbreaks in Japan demonstrates that the H5N1 in Japan in early 2007 is closely related to the H5N1 in South Korea in late 2006, which was the Uvs Lake strain.

Therefore, it is likely that the H5N1 in South Korea and Japan this season is also closely related. The record outbreaks in South Korea likely played a role in Japan's decision to implement a pre-pandemic vaccination plan.

This decision was further support by reports of H5 in a soldier in Korea. Although South Korea has still not official confirmed that the H5 in the soldiers was H5N1, the lack of any reports of low path H5 in South Korea or Japan, coupled with the linkage of the soldier to culling operations on H5N1 leaves little doubt that the H5 infection in South Korea represents the first confirmed human case in South Korea or Japan.

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Source: http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200805/200805080009.html

Updated May.8,2008 07:28 KST
Cause of Bird Flu Outbreak in Seoul Still Unknown

The cause of the virulent strain of bird flu which broke out at an aviary run by the Gwangjin District Office in eastern Seoul is still unknown.

Tests were conducted on a pheasant dealer's shop in the Moran Market in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province and a poultry farm which were suspected by the Seoul city government and the Gwangjin District Office as possible sources of the disease. But the tests proved negative.

Officials from the Seoul city government and the Gwangjin District Office on Wednesday captured wild ducks living in the lake of Konkuk University campus, which is suspected as another possible source of the disease. The lake is located about 450 m from the infected aviary. The two authorities will send captured wild ducks to a lab for tests.

If the ducks turn out to be the source of the disease, there is a high chance that other wild birds in the vicinity have already been infected. This will make it all the more difficult to trace the cause of the disease and prevent its spread. A Seoul city government official said, "Tests of the pheasants in Moran Market were conducted after bird flu broke out. So despite the negative test results, we can't yet rule it out as a possible source of the disease. We're conducting intensive examinations and inspections with various possibilities in mind."

Since April 3 when the first case of avian influenza broke out in Gimje, North Jeolla Province, the Seoul city government has been disinfecting about 400 birds raised on eight farms in south Seoul every day. In addition, the city government has also been checking duck and chicken restaurants in the suburbs.

The Gwangjin District Office, which witnessed the outbreak of bird flu in its own district, has printed 100,000 leaflets on symptoms and preventive measures of bird flu, which it will distribute to all households in its area from Thursday.

Seoul City said, "Unlike rural areas, there are no poultry farms near the aviary in Gwangjin District. The aviary is located in a downtown area, so we're not yet considering preventing vehicles from passing near the infected area. Currently, all district offices are checking how many birds are being raised in their districts."

(englishnews@chosun.com )

 

[Giuseppe]

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Suspected bird flu case reported in south of Seoul

SEOUL, May 8 (Yonhap) --

A suspected case of bird flu has been reported at a farm in the upper part of South Korea, officials said Thursday, raising concerns that the deadly disease is spreading across the nation despite the government's stepped-up quarantine efforts.

The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said that tests were underway to determine whether the massive death of ducks and chickens at a farm in Ansung, around 100 kilometers south of the capital, had been caused by avian influenza.

The farm reported that 502 out of 105,000 poultry it raises died on Wednesday. It is located just 4.8 kilometers away from another farm where a large number of poultry have recently died because of a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu.

Earlier in the day, tests found that the "H5" avian influenza virus was the cause of the death of poultry in Chuncheon and Busan in eastern and southeastern regions of South Korea, though further probe was needed to confirm whether the virus is highly virulent, the ministry said.

As of Thursday morning, the number of confirmed cases of highly virulent avian influenza stood at 34.

Most of the initial bird flu cases reported this year had been centered in the Jeolla region in southwestern South Korea. It has since spread to most other regions.

On Tuesday, the highly virulent strain of avian influenza was found in two dead chickens from a bird vivarium in Seoul.

The outbreak in the nation's capital raised alarm that the poultry epidemic is spreading nationwide beyond control.
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Source: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/05/117_23894.html

05-08-2008 18:52
Pigeons Strike Fear Into Citizens

By Bae Ji-sook
Staff Reporter

``Are these pigeons safe?'' Citizens express fear towards pigeons and magpies on the streets after dead birds found at an aviary in Gwangjin, eastern Seoul, were confirmed to have the H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus that can be deadly to humans.

At parks, plazas or apartment complexes where birds flock, pedestrians dodge the menacing birds like something out of Hitchcock's movie - The Birds. Some people cover their nose or eyes and a few even wanted to slaughter them all.

``This morning I told the kids never to touch the birds nor feed them,'' said a 68-year-old woman who took her kid to Boramae Park in Seoul, Thursday. ``You get very cautious after hearing that the bird flu may be just around the corner.''

At Seoul Station plaza, where hundreds of pigeons live and walk around, people tried to keep their distance, bracing themselves against walls if one came too close. A citizen said, ``Let's just get rid of all the pigeons like we killed chickens or ducks if there was the slightest possibility of them carrying the disease.''

Local public health offices are receiving hundreds of phone calls from people asking about the precise symptoms of bird flu and saying they might have caught it. Especially those who had visited the children's park next to the aviary, who complained of soar throats, high fever and other ailments. ``Many of them just had cold,''' a staff member at the office said.

The government set out several measures to ease people's anxiety. They have shut down the aviary and given only limited access to the children's park and traditional open market where the dead pheasants were sold. Quarantine officials and volunteers also tried to isolate 40 birds in Ilgam Pond inside Konkuk University, right next to the aviary.

It has also been decided that the zoo inside Seoul Grand Park in Gwacheon will be shut down should a case of bird flu be reported within three kilometers.

The government has begun informing people of the avian influenza. ``Experts say the virus could be carried in the air, but it does not mean all surrounding air contains the virus,'' a city government spokesman said.

It also told citizens to refrain from touching birds at parks or ponds in the neighborhood.

The spokesman asked parents to take extra care of their children. ``There are chicks sold in front of elementary school front gates. We know many children want to buy or touch them because they look cute. But they may touch their excrement, the most likely thing to contain contagious materials,'' he said.

Prof. Kim Jae-hong of Seoul National University said there is little chance people will get infected by such a virus by simply passing by them or being in the same open area. ``I think the reason there were cases of human contraction in Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam is because their culture is to breed such animals indoors and therefore they get in contact with their excrement easily,'' he said.

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[Gert van der Hoek]

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AI occurred in Pyeongtaek, 20 days after it occurred ANSUNG in AI.
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AI headquarters in Gyeonggi Province official said an emergency anti-epidemic measures "are identified as H5 gobyeongwonseong AI argument is confident and dangerous as well as regional salcheobuneun operating through the post to reinforce the boundary", "no later than 6 on whether to end gobyeongwonseong seems to be able to identify" He said.
Meanwhile, the Southern Branch of livestock hygiene institute last three days and three nights at the farm for 11 K sikke liver test results, 19, tested positive for AI marijung in seven straight sessions, depending on water level National Science geomyeokwon waiting for the results of the inspection to the final evaluation.

/박석원·김동수·이학성기자 dskim@kgib.co.kr​

/ Science bakseokwon gimdongsu seonggija dskim@kgib.co.kr :tiphat:

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://www.kgib.co.kr/&langpair=ko|en&hl=en&ie=UTF8

One should be carefull with translated reports referring to dogs, these could be ducks. Possible translation bug.

From Fluwiki:

Korea/58 dogs

5-7-08
blurb out of Korean news this am--link unpostable

......83 duck farms in two yidalcho gireudeon among chickens, 58 dogs have died of bird flu symptoms appear, at once sunk to dispose of.



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by: pugmom @ Wed May 07, 2008 at 05:50:45 AM CDT

From Flutrackers (snip):

If the past four days Chuncheon in Gangwon Province sabuk ohtanri two chicken farms in the 83 kiwoodeon pyesahan of 58 ducks for the National Science geomyeokwon the precision of the results of tests conducted, gobyeongwonseongin 'H5' AI virus was confirmed in eight days.

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[HenryN]

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Updated map

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[Shiloh]

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Source: http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/

Government vows to step up bird flu fight

The government will announce a comprehensive scheme today to cope with the bird flu that has spread across the nation since its first outbreak last month.

After being initially discovered in the southwestern Jeolla region, the virus has spread to the southeastern Gyeongsang region and Gyeonggi Province, finally hitting Seoul last week. The flu continued to make its way to Gangwon Province and other parts of Gyeonggi Province yesterday.

The government and the ruling Grand National Party plans to hold an emergency meeting this afternoon, a move that comes after state health authorities issued urgent warnings to all hospitals across Seoul on Wednesday.

"The fact that bird flu was discovered at the nature learning center in Seoul highlights the seriousness of the problem," said Cho Yoon-sun, the spokeswoman of the ruling Grand National Party. "There's a great possibility that public health may have been affected by the incident since tens of thousands of citizens visited the nearby park located in the capital on May 5, Children's Day."

Elementary school girls cover their noses during decontamination work in northern Seoul yesterday. [Lee Gil-dong/The Korea Herald]
Over half a million people visited the nearby Children's Grand Park on Children's Day, following the deaths of two pheasants and five other birds, which were confirmed to have bird flu, in Gwangjin, eastern Seoul. This is the first time the virus has hit the capital. The National Veternary Research and Quarantine Service said another case of highly pathogenic avian influenza -- which could lead to disease in people -- was additionally discovered from some 58 dead ducks and chickens in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province.

As a follow-up measure, the regional government held blood tests and medical examinations, as well as inserting antiviral drug Tamiflu to those most vulnerable to the virus, such as residents living in farming areas and health officials in charge of decontamination, its officials said. A public health center in the region was also designated as an avian influenza emergency care center to effectively deal with the bird flu virus.

In Anseong, Gyeonggi Province, about 14,000 ducks were slaughtered yesterday, after a test showed that the ducks were most likely infected with avian influenza. However, the outcome of a detailed examination to determine whether it is a case of highly contagious avian influenza, will be revealed this morning.

So far, a total of 34 cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza have been confirmed nationwide, excluding the case in Chuncheon, Gyeonggi Province, according to the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. A final test result must show that the birds are positively infected with the virus to become a confirmed infection case.

By Cho Ji-hyun

(sharon@heraldm.com)

 

[Shiloh]

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Source: http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/business/2008/05/08/1/0501000000AEN20080508007700320F.HTML

2008/05/08 23:55 KST
Gov't to closely monitor Seoul's main traditional market for bird flu

혻 혻 SEOUL, May 8 (Yonhap) -- The government said Thursday that it will closely monitor a stream and a large traditional market in downtown Seoul for signs of sick birds.

혻 혻 The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said experts recommended close observation of the Cheonggye stream and Gyeongdong market after the virulent H5N1 strain of the bird flu was confirmed at the Gwangjin ward office earlier in the week. The market handles live poultry, while ducks and wild birds have been seen using the stream.

혻혻 Officials at the ward in eastern Seoul claimed a pheasant that was bought at a traditional market caused the deaths of birds raised in a vivarium.

혻혻 After the first bird flu outbreaks were reported on April 1, most birds deaths occurred on large-scale poultry farms and meat processing facilities.

혻혻 Toward the end of last month, smaller-scale outbreaks have been attributed to people buying chickens, ducks and pheasants in traditional markets.

혻혻 The ministry, meanwhile, said that as of Thursday, there have been 34 confirmed cases of virulent bird flu outbreaks. About 6 million birds have been culled so far this year to prevent the spread of the avian influenza.

혻혻 yonngong@yna.co.kr

 

[Shiloh]

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South Korea says soldier not infected with bird flu
09 May 2008 01:14:33 GMT
Source: Reuters

SEOUL, May 9 (Reuters) - A South Korean soldier tested for bird flu did not contract the deadly virus and will be released from hospital, according to a statement obtained on Friday.

"The soldier, who was quarantined after showing symptoms of bird flu, has tested negative. We have determined his condition was caused by bacterial pneumonia," the Korea Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said in a news release.

The soldier, 21, who was hospitalised last month, had been taking part in the culling of more than 5 million birds as South Korea works to contain its worst outbreak of avian influenza.

Despite government efforts, the H5N1 strain of bird flu has spread to most parts of the country including Seoul, leading many to steer clear of zoos and the pigeon flocks that roam the capital.

Earlier this week, North Korea said it was stepping up measures to prevent the outbreak from being carried over its borders by migratory flocks.

The last known bird flu outbreak in impoverished North Korea was in 2005. (Reporting by Jon Herskovitz and Lee Jiyeon; editing by Jonathan Hopfner and Valerie Lee)

 

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South Korean bird flu extended to Seoul officials said the development of the epidemic situation to get out of control (AP)
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South Korean bird flu becoming more and more serious, the current has spread to Seoul. South Korean officials said yesterday that in the country from the recent spread of the spread of bird flu, has developed to control the situation.

South Korean media reports, South Korean Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sports second official Shin Min contained in the cabinet meeting that the Seoul-Tianjin Area Chamber of keeping two pheasants in the afternoon of April 28 was found died suddenly, the sophisticated inspection After the confirmation of bird flu; keeping with the turkey and a Liangzhi Ji also have died.

Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry of Food, Seoul, where authorities have culled all poultry and limit a nearby zoo and staff entering and leaving the livestock market.

According to reports, South Korean disease management headquarters attaches great importance to the current spread of the epidemic in the country, because this is different from the past, has been developed to control the epidemic situation of the most important thing is the first time in the densely populated downtown Seoul found that avian influenza.

According to South Korean media reported on the 7th, the South Korean capital Seoul on the 5th outbreak of bird flu have been found five suspected infection.:tiphat: http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?h...l.com/news/gb/intl/2008/05/200805080408.shtml-=

 

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The office also advised schools to exclude poultry farms or other places with fowl from their field trips. In addition, it asked them to crack down on vendors selling pet chickens to students.

In addition, the office is keeping an inventory of poultry being raised at schools, while asking them to report any suspected symptoms of bird flu. :tiphat: http://english.kbs.co.kr/news/newsview_sub.php?menu=4&key=2008050826</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

 

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'Questionable deaths doves' coping neukjang
Gunsan on the scene reported receiving six days of disappearing corpses? Chonbuk livestock hygiene硏"an autopsy should have checked whether the AI"

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Avian Influenza (AI) has virtually taken the country by the middle hwaksandwae emergency anti-epidemic authorities, in a coffin ryeonhan confirmed reports of trouble in Gunsan is neukjang said.
The question is a dove who was reported bird flu death danghaetdamyeo for the investigation and how they are coping at the commission, and six days, reported The city began investigating the scene. Belatedly launched an investigation at the scene eventually cigar in the wind, quarantine authorities have failed to secure a dove even conducted an autopsy failed. Chonbuk Livestock Hygiene Institute "Regarding the question of death and dove through the AI must determine whether an autopsy should have," he said at the time of the belated action can not understand.
A company employee Kunsan jochondong Mr. B, 'One of the pigeons died suddenly?' under the title Tuesday night at 7:00 left post in message boards, and 56 people watching. Specifically, Mr. B, introduced himself after this article, "the 2nd 6:00 a.m. 15 doves, one who suddenly ran into the window nalahwa people continue to throw up after sneezing, taking a look back budeulbudeul tteolda is now dead," he explained. He said "a dead dove under a tree near the main entrance to the company dueotgo, I just tried to burying the report should be prudent writes," added the contents.
Dong-A Ilbo in a telephone conversation with Mr. B, the 8th "strange fellow with a dead dove, what do you think it was worrying, bulletin boards, including the City Hall website reported two places," "cigar wonder why you did not take action immediately," he said.
The city "is the same for the 8th belatedly figured in the morning and two employees were dispatched to the scene, about Chonbuk Livestock Hygiene Institute announced soon," "pigeons were found dead at the scene failed, it is highly likely the company took a cat burglar cheukeurobuteo Affirmative answers, "he said.
Yiedaehae citizens of "some concern that the spread of infection through a pigeon AI is concerned about the issue back to look at bidulgiman situation, I can not understand the belated action can not be part of" idle while the city to cope with mistakes. :tiphat:
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Gov't to ban live ducks, chickens at traditional markets: lawmaker

SEOUL, May 9 (Yonhap) -- The government agreed Friday to prohibit the sale of live ducks and chickens at traditional markets, where bird flu is a hard threat to contain, a ruling party official said.

The measure, proposed by the Grand National Party at a meeting with government officials, comes as South Korea is undergoing its worst scare over bird flu.:tiphat:
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Lee to convene Cabinet meeting over bird flu

By Yoo Cheong-mo
SEOUL, May 9 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Myung-bak will preside over a meeting of Cabinet ministers on Saturday to discuss the government's detailed policy measures to stem the spread of avian influenza, Lee's spokesperson said Friday.

The sense of urgency has further heightened as the government on Monday confirmed the first outbreak of avian influenza in Seoul, in addition to 34 other cases of the highly pathogenic avian influenza that were reported in the central and southwestern parts of the country so far this year.:tiphat:
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2008/05/09/0301000000AEN20080509005700315.HTML

 

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Seoul gwansangyong bird hakseupjang the nature of AI (avian influenza) is spreading, human infection is a growing concern among the Busan gangseogu a duck farm in bunbyeon appears positive aspects, such as the AI has spread to jeonbangwi said.

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Yangsan, South Gyeongsang Province, the city's pigeon population, especially in emergency pyesahae defenses.

Busan and Busan on October 28, gijanggun livestock hygiene is geomsaso gangseogu daejeodong Chung (63) ducks from 60 farms in his blood and science college in the number of gyeongsangdae bunbyeon to hook up to the AI asked antibody test results, the bunbyeon positive for a duck. 220 chicken and duck farms out of the nine salcheobunhaetdago urgently eight days.

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The result is a thorough examination to determine whether gobyeongwonseong 10 and is scheduled to come ilkke, gobyeongwonseong breeding farms in the nearby Busan hwakjindoel case for plans to strengthen defenses.

Yangsan, South Gyeongsang Province is the second floor bukbudong geunrin Park neighborhoods format stores more than 50 pigeons were Marie Marie is one of our more than 10 residents reported that the body depending on the results of a scan sugeohae liver, AI tested negative for the disease was announced eight days. he reaction was positive, but they did Yangsan 1.8 million local poultry farmers to breed pigeons scattered as it is not probable infection was caused by AI jeonjeongeunggeung.

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Yangsan official said, "AI in Busan, Ulsan and poultry farms, killing an imbalance in the yard, shaking the city pigeons found in cases of suspected AI I'm embarrassed". "Scan from liver disease, tested negative for the current operations and scrutinize the nearby area defenses Their actions, "he said.

Ulsan, the AI has occurred in uljugun ungchonmyeon since gobyeongwonseong confirmed 10 additional suspected cases are National Foods hwakindwae doubt on the science geomyeokwon axis in the ongoing inspection. Accordingly, at Ulsan daegongwon 0 won only 30 of the infected birds are breeding for researchers to assess environmental health checks at Ulsan. Gwangjin past five days, Seoul, Ward was a natural breeding daleseo gobyeongwonseong AI was found in hakseupjang regard as a breeding bird in the nearby area daegongwon children infected with AI for a thorough examination of whether the commission said.

Tickets in the past five days, Gyeonggi miyang earthen pot here in this gobyeongwonseong AI as a de hwakjindoen fell 4.8 ㎞ gongdoeup AI has also raised the farm, farm ssiohri proactive in its 14,850 chickens and 20,000 al salcheobun both measures. .

Chuncheon in Gangwon Province for the past four days AI suspected cases were found in gobyeongwonseong measures panmyeongdwae defenses and health authorities have begun an emergency. The AI is spread nationwide after 9 pm on the Grand National Party government and the relationship between ministers and leading party members attended an emergency center to open the council decided to prepare countermeasures.

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