South Korea HAS been open on their bird flu reporting with lots of pics. One report describes typical HI-Path H5N1 symptoms, so that is what we are going with..
Possible bird flu outbreak in South Chungcheong
Mar 13,2012
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| Quarantine officials yesterday sanitize a poultry farm in Gyeryong, South Chungcheong, which is suspected to have an outbreak of avian influenza, raising concerns that the country may have its first bird flu case in 10 months. [NEWSIS] |
A poultry farm in Gyeryong, South Chungcheong, is suspected to have had an outbreak of avian influenza (AI), raising concerns that the country may have its first bird flu case in 10 months.
AI, commonly known as bird flu, can spread through viruses in birds, including chickens, ducks and wild birds.
According to the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries yesterday, 53 chickens out of the total 450 on the farm have died over the past three days, which led the ministry to conduct an initial test to see if they had bird flu.
Based on the tests conducted by the Animal, Plant and Fisheries Quarantine and Inspection Agency, six out of 10 chickens were confirmed to have shown positive symptoms of AI, pushing the government to hold a more detailed examination. The final test results will be announced today.
“So far, we have taken preventive measures against a possible bird flu outbreak on the [Gyeryong] farm according to our manual, have announced it to be off-limits to visitors and disinfected the area,” said Kim Jeong-joo, an official from the ministry’s disease control division.
According to the ministry, if a highly pathogenic strain of AI is confirmed, it will call for a temporary quarantine of all birds being raised for production, which will be the first time in 10 months since the last outbreak of AI in May last year.
There are two types of AI - the low-pathogenic or the high-pathogenic types - of which the latter is more a serious virus because it is highly contagious, even to humans. There have been no reported cases in Korea, however, of the AI virus spreading to humans.
Korea saw its first outbreak of a highly pathogenic AI virus in 2003. The most recent outbreak was from Dec. 29, 2010 to May 16, 2011, which spread from South Jeolla to 25 other cities and districts.
Korea regained its AI-free status as a nation in May of last year, allowing farmers to continue their poultry exports to countries like Japan.
http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2949821
AI, commonly known as bird flu, can spread through viruses in birds, including chickens, ducks and wild birds.
According to the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries yesterday, 53 chickens out of the total 450 on the farm have died over the past three days, which led the ministry to conduct an initial test to see if they had bird flu.
Based on the tests conducted by the Animal, Plant and Fisheries Quarantine and Inspection Agency, six out of 10 chickens were confirmed to have shown positive symptoms of AI, pushing the government to hold a more detailed examination. The final test results will be announced today.
“So far, we have taken preventive measures against a possible bird flu outbreak on the [Gyeryong] farm according to our manual, have announced it to be off-limits to visitors and disinfected the area,” said Kim Jeong-joo, an official from the ministry’s disease control division.
According to the ministry, if a highly pathogenic strain of AI is confirmed, it will call for a temporary quarantine of all birds being raised for production, which will be the first time in 10 months since the last outbreak of AI in May last year.
There are two types of AI - the low-pathogenic or the high-pathogenic types - of which the latter is more a serious virus because it is highly contagious, even to humans. There have been no reported cases in Korea, however, of the AI virus spreading to humans.
Korea saw its first outbreak of a highly pathogenic AI virus in 2003. The most recent outbreak was from Dec. 29, 2010 to May 16, 2011, which spread from South Jeolla to 25 other cities and districts.
Korea regained its AI-free status as a nation in May of last year, allowing farmers to continue their poultry exports to countries like Japan.
http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2949821
- 6 Chickens Test Positive for AI at S. Chungcheong Province
- [2012-03-12, 13:50:41]
The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries announced on Monday that six out of ten chickens of a chicken farm in the city of Gyeryong tested positive for bird flu. Such tests were conducted after 45 chickens died.
Final test results of whether the six chickens were infected with the virulent H-5-N-1 strain of avian influenza will come out on Tuesday.
The ministry has banned the passage of vehicles to and from the chicken farm and has expanded its investigations to nearby poultry farms
http://english.kbs.co.kr/News/News/News_view.html?No=88819&id=Ec
Workers spray with fumigators at the Moran
Stopping the spread of bird flu: Workers spray with fumigators at the Moran Market in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, Monday, to take preventive measures against avian influenza after a suspected case was reported at a poultry farm in South Chungcheong Province. An initial test on 10 chickens with symptoms produced positive results.
..all farms nearby on lockdown
..Lee, Seung - Sook Farm representative here, "Fortunately, preventive measures to avoid salcheobun buried away, but within a radius 1 ㎞ duck and chicken farms in a large Foster is worried," said "The worst is over 1000 dogs all the precepts of natural salcheobun jochidwae monuments could become extinct, "he was concerned. http://www.cctoday.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=688436
Precision test results confirmed by the Highly Pathogenic AI occurs at or near the farm and all poultry farms within 500m salcheobun, is buried in 13 places within 10 ㎞ 2,425 poultry farms from 30 to 40 days of the movement is limited. http://www.cctoday.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=688432
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