South Korea - H5N6 AI Cases Confirmed in Poultry Farms in South Chungcheong Province.

[Gert van der Hoek]

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Write : 2016-12-06 15:19:41 Update : 2016-12-06 16:18:16[/h]
A highly pathogenic strain of bird flu has been confirmed at poultry farms in the cities of Cheonan and Asan in South Chungcheong Province.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said Tuesday that samples from a duck farm in Dongnam district in Cheonan and a hatchery in Asan tested positive for the H5N6 strain of avian influenza(AI).

With the confirmation, the ministry said it is culling more than four-thousand ducks and 150-thousand egg-laying hens in the area.

The ministry is also imposing emergency quarantine measures, including controlling access and restricting traffic at the affected farms.

As of Monday at midnight, roughly four-point-four million birds had been culled as a bird flu precaution.

 

[sharon sanders]

Government press release:


[FONT=&#46027]Cheonan species ducks, Asan laying hens suspicion High-pathogenic AI confirmed[/FONT]
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[TD="colspan: 2"]The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Livestock and Livestock Foods (Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry) conducted a thorough inspection at the Agriculture, Forestry and Livestock Quarantine Headquarters for Suspected Ducks (Cheonan, Chungnam Province) (AI) (H5N6 type).
Ducks (4,349) are being buried in the farm, and laying hens (150,000) are in the process of burial. The center of the farm is set up to set up a dairy farm to control the movements, install and operate disinfection facilities urgent preventative measures conducted
a thorough agri-food unit on the block, including a thorough disinfection occurs AI Add to poultry farmers and workers in order to prevent, outsider, vehicle access control defenses were gihayeo urges line.[/TD]
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