South Korea : Bird flu hits Jeolla provinces, FMD spread feared

Via The Dong-A Ilbo :

" Six duck farms in Naju and Yeongam, South Jeolla Province, were found Tuesday to be affected by highly pathogenic strains of avian influenza.

With the spread of foot-and-mouth disease temporally halted, quarantine authorities will devise additional measures such as vaccination of hoofed and even-toed mammals nationwide if food-and-mouth disease spreads to the Jeolla provinces.

The Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry said suspected cases of bird flu at three duck farms in Naju and three others in Yeongam were found to be those of the deadly strain of avian influenza."

South Korea : Suspected bird flu cases reported in Yeongam County

Via The Dong-A Ilbo :

" Suspected cases of bird flu were reported Wednesday at a duck farm in Yeongam County, South Jeolla Province.

Quarantine authorities say the cases are most likely a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza given the large number of ducks that died, adding the area is not far away from Haenam County, where the deadly strain was detected from wild birds.

The Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry said close inspections are underway at a Yeongam duck farm after ducks there died en masse. At the farm, 4,500 of 14,500 ducks recently died.

“Ducks continued to die Sunday and Monday so the owner of the farm reported this to quarantine authorities,” a ministry official said. “The report was delayed because unlike chickens, ducks show no particular symptoms when infected with bird flu.”

As a preventive measure, quarantine authorities will cull not only ducks at the farm but also more than 70,000 poultry within a 500-meter radius from the farm."