(Cheongju=Yonhap News) Reporter Jeon Chang-hae = A suspected virus of highly pathogenic avian influenza (AI) has been detected at a quail farm in Jincheon, North Chungcheong. According to North Chungcheong Province on the 22nd, a report was received the previous day that the mortality rate had increased at a quail farm located in Chopyeong-myeon, Jincheon County, raising suspicion of AI. Upon inspection by the provincial animal hygiene testing center, H5 antigen, suspected to be highly pathogenic AI, was detected. The results of the precise examination by the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency on whether it is highly pathogenic are expected to come out in 1 to 3 days. The farm was confirmed to be about 13 kilometers away from a broiler farm in Goesan County where highly pathogenic AI occurred on the 16th. If the quail farm is also confirmed to have highly pathogenic AI, it will be reported as the third case of farmer infection in the province this winter, following the farms in ...