1,862 geese culled on Chiayi farm in western Taiwan

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/12/20
By: Flor Wang and Tsai Ming-chih

Taipei, Dec. 20 (CNA) Nearly 2,000 geese raised on a farm in Chiayi County were culled Friday after being confirmed to have contracted the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5 subtype virus, the county's Animal Disease Center said.

According to the center, 1,862 geese which the farm had kept for breeding were killed after being determined by the Animal Research Institute under the Council of Agriculture to have been infected with the bird flu virus.

The farm was also disinfected to ward off a spread of the virus, the center added.

On Tuesday, it sent workers to inspect the farm and took samples for virus testing by the institute after the farm's owner, surnamed Hung (洪), reported irregularities among the geese earlier that day.
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