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A new highly pathogenic strain of the H5N2 avian influenza virus has hit a chicken farm in Changhua County, bringing the number of poultry farms around Taiwan affected by the strain of avian flu to 15 since the beginning of…
Animal health officials responding to a bird flu outbreak in southwest Indiana say crews have finished killing more than 400,000 birds ordered euthanized at the 10 affected commercial poultry farms. The state issued a statement Wednesday evening saying all…
Ten more outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza have been reported in Taiwan. There were three outbreaks of the H5N8 strain, in Pingtung, Chiayi, and Koahsiung counties. The farms affected included a duck farm, a goose farm and…
Three more outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza have been reported in France, bringing the total number of outbreaks to thirteen. In Landes, an outbreak of the H5N9 strain in Horsarieux was detected in a breeding flock of over…
A total of 18,810 chickens were culled on a poultry farm in central Taiwan’s Changhua County late Thursday after it was confirmed that they had been infected with the highly pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza, inspection officials said Friday. Officials…
The rural German district of Cham in Bavaria has reported a low pathogenic outbreak of H5N2 avian influenza. District officials reported the outbreak in a press release, which said that culling at the effected farm was expected to be…
Officials in Changhua steeled themselves to cull 20,060 chickens on a farm where the highly pathogenic H5N2 avian flu virus was found, yesterday, according to the Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine (BAPHIQ, 動植物防疫檢疫局). The infection…
Four more highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreaks have been reported in Taiwan, killing several different poultry species. Two duck farms, one farm of breeding geese, and one farm of sentinel chickens were affected. There were 515 cases, and…
About 8,900 broiler ducks at two farms in Yunlin County’s Dounan Township (斗南) are to be culled, while a suspected H5N2 infection was reported at farms in Tainan and Chiayi County on Monday. Ducks at the Yunlin farms on…
There have been two more outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Taiwan. The outbreaks were of the H5N2 subtype. There were 11,952 deaths from the disease on two chicken farms in Dacheng Township, Changhua county. Another 47,548…
