Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/11/17
By: Flor Wang and Tsai Ming-chih

Taipei, Nov. 17 (CNA) Over 13,000 chickens raised on a farm in Yunlin County were culled Sunday after a case of highly pathogenic avian influenza was confirmed a day earlier.

About 13,220 eight-month old chickens at the farm in Baozhong Township were culled and blanket disinfection operations conducted to prevent the virus from spreading further, said Liao Pei-chih (廖培志), a local government official responsible for animal and plant quarantine affairs.
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