South Korea: Avian influenza occurred in Gimpo in 2 years, poultry farm tension

(Gimpo = Yonhap News) Reporter Yoon Tae-hyun = Poultry farms are nervous because of the first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (AI) infection in two years in Gimpo, Gyeonggi-do. According to Gimpo City on the 4th, a highly pathogenic AI outbreak occurred at a laying hen (chicken that produces eggs) in Haseong-myeon the day before, and the quarantine authorities slaughtered about 80,000 chickens. It has been two years since 2021 that a case of highly pathogenic AI infection came out in Gimpo. The confirmed farm has no history of AI outbreaks, and from two months ago, disinfection of visitors and vehicles was strengthened according to the city's special AI quarantine measures, but infection could not be avoided. Quarantine authorities are said to be conducting epidemiological investigations assuming that winter migratory birds, which appear around the Han River estuary, are the source of infection. So far, there have been no additional cases of infection, but other farms ...