Taiwan News
Date: 2018/01/20
By: Central News Agency
Taipei, Jan. 20 (CNA) Over 11,000 chickens and ducks have been culled on two farms
Bird flu found in Changhua County. (By Central News Agency)
in Pingtung and Changhua counties after it was confirmed that they had been infected with the highly pathogenic H5N2 strain of avian influenza, inspection officials said Saturday.
A total of 10,450 chickens on a farm in Pingtung’s Neipu Township and 1,362 ducks on a farm in Changhua’s Erlin Township were culled, according to the Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine.
That brings the total number of poultry farms hit by avian influenza to 12 so far this year, and the total number of birds culled to 115,055, the bureau said. [FULL STORY]