Bird flu spreads to 21 farms on Taiwan
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TAIWAN slaughtered nearly 6,000 geese yesterday after 14 more farms were confirmed infected with the latest outbreak of avian influenza that has led to the culling of more than 140,000 birds.
It brought to 21 the total number of farms infected by the outbreak since last week — all in the south — according to the Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine.
Killing the 5,830 geese at three farms in Chiayi County began on Monday night and was completed early yesterday.
Further culls are expected as authorities adopt stringent measures to eliminate a new variant of the H5N2 and H5N8 strains, both discovered for the first time on the island.
“In order to swiftly wipe out the new disease, as long as the samples collected from any farm are confirmed as the H5 virus and the death rates there are high, all the poultry in the farm will be destroyed immediately,” said agriculture chief Chen Bao-ji. “I can say for sure that within the next month the number of infected farms will keep growing.”
The first outbreak was confirmed at a chicken farm in Pingtung County, where 122,000 chickens were destroyed last week.
Taiwan has reported several outbreaks of H5N2 but has no recorded cases of the potentially deadly H5N1.
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