South Korea: Highly pathogenic AI confirmed at two chicken farms in Jeongeup, 167,000 slaughtered

(Jeongeup = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Dong-chul = Jeonbuk-do announced on the 25th that the avian influenza (AI) virus recently detected in the native chicken farm and laying hen farm in Jeongu-myeon, Jeongeup-si was confirmed as highly pathogenic for the H5N1 type. The province slaughtered 37,000 native chickens and 87,000 laying hens from the farms by mobile heat treatment. In addition, 43,000 native chickens from a farm 200 meters away from the farm where the outbreak occurred are being culled as a preventive measure. Jeonbuk Province intensively disinfected poultry farms in quarantine areas within a radius of 10 km, restricted movement and entered into close inspections. A provincial official advised, "All poultry farms thoroughly disinfect the inside and outside of the farm every day, closely ...