Via Joong Ang Daily :
" Ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, livestock farmers are voluntarily cutting themselves off from their family and friends in fear that visitors might infect their farms with foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) or avian influenza A, fencing themselves in, shutting down roads and closing local markets.
Residents of Gaya, Hongseong County, South Chungcheong, have blocked off roads leading to their village to fend off visitors from contagious regions since Jan. 11. Gaya is free of FMD.
Kim Yeong-pal, the 52-year-old head of the village, said, “We are willing to bear more inconveniences if we can successfully fend off the FMD virus.”
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Friday, December 31, 2010
South Korea : Man dies of H1N1 in metro hospital
Via Joong Ang Daily :
" A patient yesterday died from the H1N1 virus, the so-called swine flu which swept nationwide in 2009, at a hospital in the metropolitan region as concerns grew about the spreading of other viruses, including foot-and-mouth disease and avian flu.
According to Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a 29-year old man visited a hospital on Monday complaining of a fever and muscle aches. The next day, it found he was infected with the H1N1 virus and sent him home.
The hospital prescribed antibiotics. The patient’s symptoms worsened early Wednesday morning and he was hospitalized.
He died later that day.You Dong-sook, a 36-year old actress, died from H1N1 in November after being infected while attending a film festival in Rome. Whether Wednesday’s victim travelled abroad has not been confirmed, the center said."
" A patient yesterday died from the H1N1 virus, the so-called swine flu which swept nationwide in 2009, at a hospital in the metropolitan region as concerns grew about the spreading of other viruses, including foot-and-mouth disease and avian flu.
According to Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a 29-year old man visited a hospital on Monday complaining of a fever and muscle aches. The next day, it found he was infected with the H1N1 virus and sent him home.
The hospital prescribed antibiotics. The patient’s symptoms worsened early Wednesday morning and he was hospitalized.
He died later that day.You Dong-sook, a 36-year old actress, died from H1N1 in November after being infected while attending a film festival in Rome. Whether Wednesday’s victim travelled abroad has not been confirmed, the center said."
Thursday, December 9, 2010
South Korea : Single avian flu case in N. Jeolla
An article from Joong Ang Daily :
" In the middle of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, avian flu has been detected in Korea.Avian influenza (type H5N1) was confirmed in a wild bird on Tuesday in Iksan, North Jeolla - the main habitat for migratory birds - putting health officials on alert to prevent the spread of the virus to domestic poultry.
The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said that a blood sample from a mallard in the Mangyeong River was verified to have the virus. The ministry has been conducting annual preventive inspections of 1,600 migratory birds since 2008, when avian flu, also known as highly pathogenic avian influenza A (HPAI), swept the country. As the virus was not detected from a poultry farm, Korea’s avian influenza-free status is intact.
“There is no impediment to exporting poultry even though HPAI was found in a wild bird,” said a ministry official. The ministry is stepping up disinfection work to keep the flu from spreading to farm-bred poultry. An emergency disinfection of the area around the Mangyeong River is being conducted, and the government established a tight quarantine with a 10-kilometer (6.2-mile) radius.
In addition, four mobile quarantine posts have been set up within a kilometer of the epicenter.Around 3.25 million poultry are being raised within the 10-kilometer cordon.
Officials are monitoring birds for sickness and installing nets around farms to keep away wild birds."
" In the middle of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, avian flu has been detected in Korea.Avian influenza (type H5N1) was confirmed in a wild bird on Tuesday in Iksan, North Jeolla - the main habitat for migratory birds - putting health officials on alert to prevent the spread of the virus to domestic poultry.
The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said that a blood sample from a mallard in the Mangyeong River was verified to have the virus. The ministry has been conducting annual preventive inspections of 1,600 migratory birds since 2008, when avian flu, also known as highly pathogenic avian influenza A (HPAI), swept the country. As the virus was not detected from a poultry farm, Korea’s avian influenza-free status is intact.
“There is no impediment to exporting poultry even though HPAI was found in a wild bird,” said a ministry official. The ministry is stepping up disinfection work to keep the flu from spreading to farm-bred poultry. An emergency disinfection of the area around the Mangyeong River is being conducted, and the government established a tight quarantine with a 10-kilometer (6.2-mile) radius.
In addition, four mobile quarantine posts have been set up within a kilometer of the epicenter.Around 3.25 million poultry are being raised within the 10-kilometer cordon.
Officials are monitoring birds for sickness and installing nets around farms to keep away wild birds."
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
South Korea : Actress gets H1N1 in Rome, dies
An article from Korea JoongAng Daily :
" Actress You Dong-sook, 37, died last Thursday from the H1N1 flu at a Seoul-area hospital after catching the virus at the Fifth International Rome Film Festival last month while promoting her low-budget film “My Heart Beats.”
You was given the leading role in the film directed by Huh Eun-hee and was invited to the extra competition session of the Rome festival.You was a theater actress for most of her career.She started feeling flu symptoms - body aches and respiratory difficulties - when she returned to Korea on Oct. 31.
She was hospitalized Nov. 2 at the Korea University Anam Hospital, and died nine days later from complications due to H1N1."
" Actress You Dong-sook, 37, died last Thursday from the H1N1 flu at a Seoul-area hospital after catching the virus at the Fifth International Rome Film Festival last month while promoting her low-budget film “My Heart Beats.”
You was given the leading role in the film directed by Huh Eun-hee and was invited to the extra competition session of the Rome festival.You was a theater actress for most of her career.She started feeling flu symptoms - body aches and respiratory difficulties - when she returned to Korea on Oct. 31.
She was hospitalized Nov. 2 at the Korea University Anam Hospital, and died nine days later from complications due to H1N1."
Friday, June 25, 2010
Korean dancer who toured Africa dies of malaria
Via Joong Ang Daily :
" A dancer who toured Africa with a traditional Korean folk music troupe died of malaria on Wednesday.Kim Su-yeon, 27, was one of two performers in the 45-member troupe to contract the disease, and one of 11 members who had been given chloroquine, a malaria pill that is “not very effective in Africa,” said an official from the Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention who asked to be identified only as Im.
“The pills were prescribed by a village doctor before they left. The other 34 were given drugs before their departure by the National Medical Center,” Im said. “It would have been better if they had been given better information before this happened, because that information is not hard to get. It’s on our Web site.”
Im said the 11 performers given chloroquine were all from Namwon, where the National Center for Korean Folk Performing Arts is located. He said mefloquine is usually prescribed as a preventive against malaria."
" A dancer who toured Africa with a traditional Korean folk music troupe died of malaria on Wednesday.Kim Su-yeon, 27, was one of two performers in the 45-member troupe to contract the disease, and one of 11 members who had been given chloroquine, a malaria pill that is “not very effective in Africa,” said an official from the Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention who asked to be identified only as Im.
“The pills were prescribed by a village doctor before they left. The other 34 were given drugs before their departure by the National Medical Center,” Im said. “It would have been better if they had been given better information before this happened, because that information is not hard to get. It’s on our Web site.”
Im said the 11 performers given chloroquine were all from Namwon, where the National Center for Korean Folk Performing Arts is located. He said mefloquine is usually prescribed as a preventive against malaria."
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