Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/01/05
By: Yeh Tze-kung and Ko Lin

Taipei, Jan. 5 (CNA) A chicken farm in Yunlin County has been confirmed to be infected

with a subtype of the highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza virus, leading to the culling of 10,461 birds, the city’s Animal and Plant Disease Control Center said Friday.

Cheng An-kuo (鄭安國), an official with the center, said it received a report of abnormal deaths of some 12,500 chickens at a farm in the county’s Dongshih Township and immediately collected tissue samples from the animals on Tuesday.

Samples taken from the farm were then analyzed and confirmed to be avian flu, Cheng said.    [FULL  STORY]