South Korea: 65,000 chickens were slaughtered Yongin and Hwaseong breeder farms due to avian influenza

Published Nov 17, 2022

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Yongin City in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, has reported outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (AI) at two meat breeder farms, leading to the culling of thousands of chickens. The first farm, with 41,000 chickens, experienced an outbreak on November 15, resulting in the death of 300 chickens and the detection of the H5 type AI antigen. The second farm, with 24,000 broiler breeders, reported deaths and the detection of the same antigen on November 14. The city has imposed restrictions and increased quarantine measures to contain the spread of the outbreak, which involves slaughtering and burying the affected poultry.

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(Yongin-Hwaseong = Yonhap News) Reporter Choi Hae-min = Following the first highly pathogenic avian influenza (AI) outbreak in the province since this fall at a meat breeder farm in Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, an AI antigen was detected at a meat breeder farm in Hwaseong-si, raising an emergency for livestock quarantine. it took Yongin City announced on the 17th that it is culling the meat breeder farm in Baekam-myeon, Cheoin-gu, which was confirmed as highly pathogenic avian influenza. In this farm, which raises 41,000 chickens, 300 chickens died on the 15th, and in a simple test conducted, the H5 type AI antigen was detected in all 10 specimens. According to this, the result of the detailed examination that was carried out the previous night was highly pathogenic. Following the previous day, the city's quarantine authorities put in two excavators, two dump trucks, two forklifts, and about 50 manpower to slaughter and bury the dead. There are no other poultry farms within 500m of the ...

Source: Yna