South Korea: H5N1 in Fowl/Animals, 2 April 2008 +

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South Korea reports first bird flu outbreak in capital

The Associated Press
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
SEOUL, South Korea: South Korea reported the first bird flu outbreak in its capital Tuesday, prompting health authorities to kill birds at zoos in and around the city.
Bird flu began sweeping southern parts of the country last month for the first time in more than a year, forcing the slaughter of about 6.5 million poultry.
The Agriculture Ministry said initial tests confirmed an outbreak in poultry on the compound of a local government office in eastern Seoul, and further tests were under way to determine whether it was caused by the virulent H5N1 virus.
Results were expected later Tuesday, the ministry said.
Kim Chang-sup, an Agriculture Ministry official, said it is the first time bird flu has reached Seoul.
He said two pheasants that were brought to the Gwangin-gu local government office from a farm market south of Seoul had carried the disease. They died later and infected two other birds, he said.
Quarantine workers destroyed all 53 other pheasants, chickens and turkeys that were being raised in a cage at the government office for children to view, Seoul City Hall said in a statement.
As a precaution, officials also slaughtered 63 birds at Children's Grand Park, a major amusement park about 1.2 kilometers (less than a mile) from the outbreak site, and 191 birds at Seoul Grand Park, another theme park south of the capital.
Other birds at the two parks have been disinfected and put off limits to visitors, City Hall said.

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SEOUL, May 6 (Yonhap) -- The bird flu outbreak that has swept South Korea reached the capital Seoul on Tuesday, prompting quarantine officials to decontaminate and limit access to a nearby children's park and open air market.

The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said tests conducted on four birds that started dying off from late April showed they were contaminated with the H5 avian influenza virus.

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평택에서 AI가 발생한 지 20여일 만에 안성에서도 AI가 발생했다.

AI occurred in Pyeongtaek, 20 days after it occurred ANSUNG in AI. The National Science and Gyeonggi Province, the water level in the last three days geomyeokwon material K gangdeokri farm in Anseong, miyang pyesahan indigenous yukgye H5 positive factor, with four dogs cheonyeo AI (avian influenza) were confirmed infected.

K농장은 20여일전 고병원성 AI가 확인...

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AI occurred in Pyeongtaek, 20 days after it occurred ANSUNG in AI.
The National Science and Gyeonggi Province, the water level in the last three days geomyeokwon material K gangdeokri farm in Anseong, miyang pyesahan indigenous yukgye H5 positive factor, with four dogs cheonyeo AI (avian influenza) were confirmed infected.AI has identified 20 farms yeoiljeon K gobyeongwonseong poseung Pyeongtaek, 50 ㎞ sanrangye or more away from the farm.

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Authorities are into the last four to five defenses salcheobune K until 3 ㎞ farms within a radius of 6 from the chicken breeding farm in the salcheobun mechuri 179,000.
5 acquired 260 on the second day of Anseong salcheobunyi officials pollution and risk areas within a radius of 3 ㎞ cheonyeo 90,004 chickens on a farm, and four dogs, including 10,000 and 100,004 mechuri cheonyeo Marie sunk.
Along with K radius of the farm from my 10 ㎞ boundary area to install a total of 13 patrol and sensibility animals, including chickens and ducks carrying vehicles for the passage of the ban. Poultry is also about another move to allow hwakinhu banchuljeung of Anseong.
The AI is also ANSUNG of poultry farms near balbyeonghae sunk up to the task, of course, let's go inside the farmhouse was a big shock to the residents of the region fell.
Residents gimhyeonmunssi (miyang Anseong, 54) is "praying that he does not worry as this is confirmed apseonda AI," "sunk actions, including blocking move through and no longer has to stop the spread of measures for farmers who fell in disappointment Stop the josok wanted to do, "he said.

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Anseong to do immediately to help plan prepared by the headquarters staff to supplement the shortage of assistance for military and police forces to identify the virus and the influx salcheobun measures to compensate farmers for the country.

있을 것으로 보인다?고 말했다.

AI headquarters in Gyeonggi Province official said an emergency anti-epidemic measures "are identified as H5 gobyeongwonseong AI argument is confident and dangerous as well as regional salcheobuneun operating through the post to reinforce the boundary", "no later than 6 on whether to end gobyeongwonseong seems to be able to identify" He said.
Meanwhile, the Southern Branch of livestock hygiene institute last three days and three nights at the farm for 11 K sikke liver test results, 19, tested positive for AI marijung in seven straight sessions, depending on water level National Science geomyeokwon waiting for the results of the inspection to the final evaluation.

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/ Science bakseokwon gimdongsu seonggija dskim@kgib.co.kr

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(Seoul = union news) Kim wheel recent portrait hundred million journalists whom it gives = to birds inflation to sleep (AI) is diffused at the back entire country which occurs even from Seoul. The AI which occurs from the chollapuk_do area to lead the traditional market back and also Chwung Cheng - condition - mirror-image to pass by the back and until Seoul the place of origin weight lifting continuation come up recognition it is increasing. The disease prevention authorities is tilting the hazard aggregate power which obstructs the back AI which comes out too lately in traditional market control a AI in addition the possibility which will occur enough is. Before traditional market controlling falls in the different area and it is because the chicken which goes out - the duck back do not write. The AI national diffusion agriculture and forestry processed marine products foodstuffs department revealed phyey the result which inspects four one chickens 'H5 it confirmed the elder brother ' AI virus from the 6th Seoul storehouse position ward office animal breeding market. The veteran complaint yes or no today to afternoon until the plan or H5 elder brother who is Hwag position was confirmed as recognition the veteran complaint possibility is big. Chicken group it occurs from Kyonggi-Do Ansong phyey also the cause of the company was lastly confirmed as the AI. Kyonggi-Do the result which it requests in the national veterinarian scientific quarantine unit, revealed Ansong hour slightly ill cotton river virtue li about chicken 4000 phyey four one causes was lastly ascertained as a veteran complaint AI from the indigenous chicken breeding farm of nurse Sea possession. cung This of the AI it was discovered even from the river unit Ch'unch'on hour farmhouse and the livestock raising authorities operated an emergency disease prevention setup. Kangwon-Do and it followed at Ch'unch'on hour and Ch'unch'on company facing north five it burnt and li middle-school 4th chicken 73 it passes from 2 farmhouses 2 middle-school 56 and duck 10 did phyey the company each. The chicken of these farmhouse which it goes round and against duck 30 Kangwon-Do livestock hygienic examination the result which executes the smallness from simple prosecuting attorney the precise prosecuting attorney in the national veterinarian scientific quarantine unit 6 all 12 followed a AI positive reaction each in charge and they requested. Until 6th morning 9:00 present time hardship or the AI suspicion instance which is discovered to be all 60 cases, this middle Kimje (3rd decision) and Chongup Yongwon (7th), Chongup mother-in-law and daughter-in-law (8th), Chongup Yongwon (9th), Kimje 5 place and Cholla Nam Do Yongam (12th), Kimje 5 places (13th), Naju - Kimje - Chongup back 5 place (14th), condition P'yongt'aek (16th), chollapuk_do Sunch'ang and Kimje paper - the sea gull (17th), chollapuk_do Chongup laughter (18th), Kimje gold nine (20th), about the chollapuk_do Ig mountain the mountain. east (23rd), Chung Cheong Nam Do Nonsan unsuitable (25th) and Ulsan the week Oong village which will cry. light north 01005 America (May 1st), only the Taegu hydrogenous the village (2nd), the condition Ansong slightly ill (5th) back 33 case was Hwag position with veteran complaint AI. The AI diffusion course the traditional market authorities counted a traditional market on the focus course where the AI is diffused with national. The AI which occurs from the chollapuk_do area moves with the duck chicken pheasant and it goes and at the entire country it is spreading and the traditional market the important course of infection is becoming is the thing specially. It passes by the Kyonggi-Do peony market where also the AI which occurs from Seoul storehouse position nine is expatiation traditional market came the thing is explanation of the authorities. The agriculture and fisheries foodstuffs vice- officials will see and "what in the small-sized truck to load the chicken duck it will come and go and at selling which sells by the field the AI is diffused with the fact that and" "the AI of the Seoul back city center will go to extremes from the point where is not the fact that it does not occur with oneself there was not a necessity which it will worry and it talked". The river one national veterinarian scientific quarantine ledger which it bites "currently is executing an epidemiology investigation on the course which is various, by a traditional market it spreaded out and it is going out with the fact that and the investigation result revealed" "being the possibility of coming out to the next week about". In the virus influx course of Kimje or Chongup back initial place of origin reverse as ever it is pointed out with the candidacy where the winter migratory bird is powerful. The government previous month 21st Japan Oh the as it dies from height other present subject matter lake circumference 100000000000000 (swan) where it is discovered is paying attention in the point where the H5N1 elder brother AI virus is discovered from 4. Until now the specialists when the AI occurs from our country, 1~2 even from Japan after month discuss the fact where the AI is discovered with ground of migratory bird infection and it is because comes. AI occurrence is continued the disease prevention authorities fell and the chicken - a duck back domestic fowl transactions from traditional market from the 1st day which passes the body to lead it forbade. Also against the small-scale truck 300 women's university who comes in and out to traditional market it executes disinfecting. The golden pheasant which the hazard storehouse position ward office neighborhood where also Seoul prevents a AI diffusion it breeds from the young this anti-aircraft unit and with pheasant back 10 bell 63 and the flesh it disposed the birds 191 of thousand Seoul anti-aircraft floor five humorous back 17 bells each. Against the remaining birds of these animal unit it took a disinfecting and entrance and exit control back disease prevention management. Enough there is a possibility where the next AI in addition will occur but. Before controlling a traditional market, already it falls in and it is because the mediation water which goes out will be able to diffuse the AI. The agriculture and fisheries foodstuffs vice- officials "the A1 compared to the possibility which will occur it is but thoroughly as is conducting a disease prevention the degree which will be serious talked without being". Large Professor Kim re-Hong Seoul National University veterinarian "the control against a traditional market without the effect of flesh disposal back management of existing was not only a possibility of becoming adverse sentiment and" "human body infection worry of the AI it is not but must execute quickly, basically the disease prevention authorities prerequisite did all possibilities in current status and the disease prevention of traditional market it sees" it indicated. Problem it isn't to disease prevention countermeasure and the AI which is started from previous month 3rd chollapuk_do Kimje until Seoul spreading out the disease prevention authorities nuk the tall figure of shabby management and the farmhouse, is because the illegal taking out back operated composition at only one months. Specially this time AI indigenous chicken back traditional market in traditional market control and the disease prevention authorities who is visible the aspect which is quickly diffused in the center when it enters recently, to come out start, the hole ttwul lyess all in disease prevention watch. The disease prevention authorities the flesh disposes the domestic fowl of the occurrence hour neighborhood area initially and it concentrates in only movement control and well it will not write the nerve in the small-scale chicken - the duck sale coat truck back transport vehicle quantity and 5th berry traditional market of the entire country. The AI which is started from chollapuk_do Ulsan and is diffused with Taegu back southeastern Korea volume and the me Oh! already the traditional market is paid attention on the important infection course at small-scale mediating the back it leads and spreads out after going out, at the entire country and and it was. After the disease prevention authorities the flesh disposes together initially from inside place of origin point 500 m, it will confirm an additional occurrence yes or no from circumference and the management which magnifies the disposal scope which it will live with 3 insufficiency was is a cadastral map. All flesh it disposed 3 Anui domestic fowls basically 2006~2007 in anti-epidemic measure of year to compare and it is evaluated the judgement which is prudent from the side of the compensation expense back if the flesh inside 3 it disposed initially positively, also the assertion will loosen a diffusion speed is coming out. Only 600 ducks it is taken out even in after where the disease prevention belt is set in Kimje and phyey the company the hardship accomplishes immediately and support also the non- cooperation of the back farmhouse which is not is indicated with problem point. keunyoung@yna.co.kr (end)

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Seoulseo 'AI infection Pheasant' OK <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD height=10></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=view_stitle> Gwangjin natural learning books was found dead with two bats</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Seoul was found dead from avian influenza, that is Pheasant duma (AI) infection was confirmed in six days.

The vice minister of culture, sports 2 sinjaemin Ministry briefing on the results of a Cabinet meeting, "but t's official in the city of Seoul, on June 28 at 9 am in Gwangjin hakseupjang natural building after they found a dead pheasant in the News". "Scan a result, last night. Lee said the notice signed by AI Pheasant duma, "he said. Vice-sin, "kkwongyi dead chickens and turkey succession pyesahan ever since the survey was conducted," said salcheobunhaetdago birds in nearby areas such as chickens.

And God said, "The News pyesahan kkwongeun Seongnam Moran purchased from the market, and sellers tracking him," he said. "Gwangjin natural hakseupjang currently off-limits to building measures Gwangjin salcheobunhago chicken, while the nearby children's park daegongwon 8.9 and bird watching to do salcheobunhaetdaneun , "He said.

AI is caused by the government in Seoul also found cases of avian our Food and Agriculture, forestry and fisheries as a system to strengthen cooperation with, AI is no thorough measures to prevent proliferation of plans. AI is currently beyond the Honam region Youngnam Chungcheong areas of the game spreading trend.
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부산시 .

Busan's chicken breeding farms have reported gijanggun avian influenza (AI) is not highly concerned about suspected cases of infection were confirmed jeobyeongwonseongeuro.

Busan is the chicken breeding farms have gijanggun janganeup AI suspected cases reported to the National Science geomyeokwon to send inspection results jeobyeongwonseongyiraneun notified that he had been asked to six days.

Accordingly, farmers received about 00 is reported to limit the passage of people and vehicles within a radius of 3 ㎞ from that breeding chickens (4100 yeomari got 12) and duck (1 got 100 of them) for measures to restrict moves naeryeotdeon Releases Did.

Unlike the low-pathogenic AI jeonyeomryeok high gobyeongwonseong concern that the spread of the area near City is not high.

The city is adjacent to Ulsan, Busan, just as relieved as hwakjindoen step gobyeongwonseong AI is not judged according to the city, including the region's chicken gijanggun. Duck breeding farms (in 2007 are currently 225 farms 225,000) for defenses continue to play one day Plans.

Gijanggun Busan and the earthen pot gijanggun janganeup from 13 chickens in one day last four kiwoodeon Mr. Jeon said that our special report on all chicken farms and anti-epidemic measures that established headquarters for an emergency anti-epidemic salcheobunhaneun The surrounding area was conducted.

The city "of collective farms jeonssi our dogs after one or two chickens died kiwoodeon` 'Three cases were reported in the liver jeopsudwae geomsaso inspection and sanitation, livestock, but both came out negative, AI, "he added.

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And anti-epidemic authorities, AI situation Because defenses' disarm '

2008-05-06 11:37:11
CBS has become an annual event Chonbuk avian influenza (AI) situation to seek a solution to the problems with the report points plan was featured on the first AI order and disarm anti-epidemic system in crisis situations Because of the issues raised defenses administration sees thoughts . [Editor's Note]

In February, authorities say AI defenses Jeolla province, said an emergency shutdown at the situation.

Winter 2006, the outbreak of bird flu in Iksan, Gimje and have been the victim of a sigh of relief Jeolla province, the avian influenza situation room, Nash was replaced by gujeyeok Dispatch. Avian influenza armed defenses administration will be turned off.

However, the effect one month later, on April 3 from the paper, a chicken breeding farm in Gimje gobyeongwonseong was confirmed avian influenza occurrences. 10km radius around the farm area, including more than 511 farms across the four cities and counties of 6.01 million chickens a duck breeding poultry breeding largest metropolitan areas of North Jeolla.

You can get back to the failed defenses without blocking geotjapeul situation could worsen, but there was no possibility of spreading anti-epidemic authorities have decided to minimize salcheobunreul and optimism.

Bakjeongbae exaggerated Jeolla province, livestock management, "the Central Council and anti-epidemic measures are less likely to spread in the area about 500 meters to qualify gamandwae salcheobun," he explains, "The avian influenza is likely to end 2006 nyeonbodaneun facilitating," he said.

But in two car JeongeupIC the third round of avian influenza was confirmed in the central council and anti-epidemic measures to prevent the spread belatedly salcheobun risk areas to expand the area 3km. However, the anti-epidemic authorities until temperatures rise above 20 degrees, the lower the possibility of the spread of AI maedalryeotda to existing prejudices.

The attitude of the authorities and anti-epidemic on April 8 JeongeupIC President Lee Myung-bak, who visited the scene as revealed in place.

Governor gimwanju Jeolla province, "the temperature rise is less likely to spread to expert opinion," the president said. To evaluate the possibility of spreading anti-epidemic authorities in the region since the avian influenza Chonbuk between the lower section is the tail mulmyeonseo all 25 cases, when it's too late.

Agriculture, forestry and fisheries director munmyeongsu Jeolla province, on April 17 briefing on "salcheobun first 500 meters and a range of 3km without gukhanhan belatedly that the controversy is over," but the introduction of gyeolgwaron "3km area agreed not to worsen the situation salcheobunhaetdeoramyeon "He had said.

Chonbuk, as well as the AI crisis and Yeongnam in South Jeolla Province, South Chungcheong Province, and the game is up front as the worst place you can be expanded. AI proliferation and disarmament and anti-epidemic situation, the less likely they raised Because of the situation.

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Avian Influenza Hits Seoul
05-06-2008 19:01
By Kim Tae-jong
Staff Reporter

Avian influenza was reported to have reached Seoul, Tuesday, 35 days after the first outbreak in the southwestern provinces. The ``ambush'' on the capital comes as public concern has been focused on fears over mad cow disease associated with imports of U.S. beef.

The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries confirmed the presence of avian flu at an aviary in Gwangjin, eastern Seoul, the first in the capital since the outbreak on April 1 in southwestern Jeolla Province.

The authorities have taken quarantine measures to prevent the flu from spreading further by decontaminating the aviary and limiting access to a nearby children's park and open market. They have yet to confirm if the disease is the H5N1 strain that can also be deadly to humans.

According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government, it first received a report that two pheasants were found dead on April 28 and later one turkey and two chickens.

The National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service (NVRQS) examined the cause of the deaths and confirmed that the birds died of avian flu.

``We advise citizens to wash their hands after outdoor activities and avoid physical contact with birds,'' a city official said during a news conference at the City Hall.

NVQRS officials killed and buried all the chickens, ducks, pheasants and turkeys at the aviary and closed it down.

They said it was unlikely that the disease will spread into the urban environment, but have killed some 220 birds and disinfected others after sealing off the Children's Grand Park, 1.2 kilometers away from the aviary, and Gyeongdong market where poultry is sold.

``The chances are slim for our birds to be infected by bird flu. But we've taken precautionary measures and decided to kill birds vulnerable to the disease,'' an official from the park said.

Meanwhile, the government said it will immediately kill and bury poultry from farms where a suspected avian influenza outbreak is reported.

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(2nd LD) H5N1 bird flu found in S. Korea's capital city
(ATTN: ADDS with the confirmation of deadly bird flu strain)
SEOUL, May 6 (Yonhap) --

The deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza was detected on Tuesday in dead chickens from a bird vivarium in Seoul, government officials said, prompting quarantine officials to decontaminate and limit access to a nearby children's park and open air market.

The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said quarantine officials detected the highly virulent H5N1 strain in the two dead chickens from the bird vivarium located at the Gwangjin ward office in eastern Seoul.
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<TABLE id=tbl_article cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 20px"><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>Officials told bird flu has spread to the Seoul area
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Workers scramble to decontaminate infected aviary

May 07, 2008

</TD></TR><TR><TD class=actxt id=articleBody style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 18px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 20px; LINE-HEIGHT: 27px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">Despite nonstop efforts to halt the worst outbreak of bird flu ever to hit the country, a new case has hit Korea??s capital city, prompting the slaughter of more than 300 poultry and the quarantining of the bird areas in nearby parks, a government body said yesterday.
Initial tests on two chickens raised in an aviary located in the Gwangjin District Office in eastern Seoul showed that they were infected with the H5 N1 strain of the avian influenza virus, according to officials of the Seoul Metropolitan Government.
The tests were conducted by the National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service. At first, officials were not convinced that the case involved the deadly H5N1 strain. But late yesterday, it was confirmed, government officials said.
Of 58 birds raised in the aviary, including chickens, pheasants, and turkeys, two pheasants died on April 28, followed by a turkey, a golden pheasant and a chicken, officials said. The other infected chicken was killed by quarantine workers .
Officials at the district office said that after the series of mysterious deaths, they asked the national service on Saturday to conduct tests to see whether their deaths were caused by bird flu.
??We suspect that the two infected pheasants found dead on April 28 infected the other birds,?? said Lee Sung, an official of the Seoul metropolitan government. ??The district office officials purchased the pheasants on April 24 at an open market in Seongnam, just south of Seoul.??
In an effort to stop the spread of bird flu in Seoul, the Seoul city government and Gwangjin District Office disinfect the residential area within a 500-meter-radius of the infected vivarium. They also slaughtered 63 fowls in the nearby Children??s Grand Park. The park is only 1.1 kilometers (0.68 miles) away from the infected area.
Workers killed all of the turkeys, pheasants, and chickens in the park and closed the bird area to visitors.
??We are busy taking measures to prevent bird flu from spreading in Seoul,?? said Shin Jae-ik, an official of the Gwangjin District Office.
??We are already finished with disinfection work near the vivarium, the and aviary will be indefinitely closed.??
Additionally, the neighboring, the Seoul Grand Park, decided to close its bird section following the slaughter of a total of 221 birds in the park.
It is about 20 kilometers southwest of the infected aviary.
??To be on the safe side, we killed and buried all chickens, ducks and geese in the park,?? an official declining to be named said.
??We have ordered visitors not to make any contact with birds over the past 10 days.??
Under the urgent quarantine efforts, the Seoul city government also disinfected a total of eight poultry farms in Guro and Gangnam districts to try to stem the outbreak.
The possible spread of bird flu to the nation??s largest city has heightened public fears. With a population of more than 10 million, Seoul and its residents said that they are concerned about the rapid spread of bird flu outbreaks.
??I was totally shocked after I heard about Seoul??s bird flu,?? said 30-year-old office worker Lee Nyeong. ??It??s a very serious issue because Seoul is the symbol of Korea.??
In the meantime, the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries announced that other possible bird flu outbreaks were found in Chuncheon farms in Gangwon Province and Cheonan farms in South Chungcheong Province.
Provincial government officials said that on-site tests were positive for avian influenza at the chicken and duck farms in Chuncheon and Cheonan, leading to the slaughter of 25,000 chickens and ducks.
No bird flu cases have been reported in Gangwon since the first outbreak was reported at a Gimje farm in North Jeolla Province at the beginning of April.
The ministry also confirmed that the virus was found at an Anseong, Gyeonggi, farm, causing the culling of about 100,000 poultry near the infected farm.
Since it was first detected, some 33 confirmed bird flu outbreaks, including the most current Anseong case, have so far been reported in six of nine provinces in the nation: Gyeonggi, South Chungcheong, North and South Jeolla, and North and South Gyeongsang, with more than 6.4 million birds killed.
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Tests confirm bird flu in Seoul The bird flu pandemic that has spread to six of Korea's nine provinces hit Seoul last week, prompting the slaughter of poultry and decontamination efforts in the area.
Tests confirmed that two pheasants that died last week in a vivarium of the Gwangjin ward office in eastern Seoul were found to be infected with the H5 avian influenza, the city government said yesterday.
The district office requested the National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service to conduct an inspection on Saturday after a turkey and two chickens died as well, and was informed of the AI infection Monday evening.
The quarantine service was to confirm later yesterday whether the AI outbreak in Seoul was highly contagious.
The ward office said that it bought the two pheasants from a livestock market in Seongnam in the southeastern outskirts of Seoul on April 24.
"Inspectors have been dispatched to the market to check for additional contamination and to find out how the pheasant got sick," a quarantine official said.
A countermeasures team led by the Agriculture Ministry is also looking into the possibility that waste from the ducks at a lake in Konkuk University, just 450 meters from the ward office, could have passed on the AI virus.
The quarantine team culled and buried 53 chickens in the Gwangjin-gu vivarium and took disinfection and precautionary measures around the area. Those who have visited the vivarium since April 24 were to take blood tests for possible contamination.
Authorities also limited access to the nearby Children's Grand Park, where half a million people have visited on Children's Day, and Gyeongdong market, where live poultry are traded. They also slaughtered nearly 300 birds in the Children's Grand Park and the Grand Park in Gwacheon, south of Seoul.
The countermeasures team has been making decontamination efforts in the eight bird-raising farms around Seoul's boundaries after the first AI infection was reported in early April in Gimje, North Jeolla Province.
As yesterday's announcement marked the first AI outbreak in Seoul, authorities decided to inspect and decontaminate all possible bird-raising places including duck restaurants in the outskirts.
The Seoul City government asked people to take extra caution, wash their hands after returning home and avoid contact with birds. Most of the initial bird flu cases reported this year were centered in the Jeolla region in southwestern Korea. It has since spread through most of the country with bird deaths being reported in Gyeongsang region in the southeast and two cities in Gyeonggi Province, south of Seoul. http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/

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Source: http://english.donga.com/srv/service...=2008050740088

Bird Flu Spreads to Seoul Region, Eastern Province

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MAY 07, 2008 08:17


○ Bird flu reported in Seoul

The Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry and the Seoul city government confirmed yesterday that bird flu killed pheasants, hens and turkeys in a small zoo in the capital?s Gwangjin ward on April 28.

Authorities said the dead birds tested positive for the H5-type virus, or a mutation of the bird flu virus.

The cage in the ward office where the disease broke out housed 57 birds ranging from hens, ducks, pheasants and turkeys. The rest of the remaining stock was culled.

Another 63 birds spanning 10 breeds were killed at nearby Children?s Grand Park as well as 221 birds spanning 17 breeds at Seoul Grand Park in the southern suburb of Gwacheon. The two parks took preventive measures and put the zoos and their remaining poultry under quarantine.

A ministry official said, ?Children?s Grand Park is 1.2 kilometers from the cage and proved epidemiologically unaffected. To root out the possibility of further contamination, we are conducting quarantine activities on nearby markets as well as the park itself.?

The Gwangjin Ward Office is also facing criticism for acting too late. It first killed turkeys after pheasants died, then culled other birds for two consecutive days following the first killing. The office, however, did not ask for a bird flu test until yesterday.

The Seoul city government checked through community networks if anyone was affected by the disease in the area through contact with the sick birds.

○ Spread traced to small market transactions

Suspected cases of bird flu were also reported in the eastern province of Gangwon. Authorities there said a rural village in Chuncheon had 56 of 73 hens and two of 10 ducks die. A preliminary test showed they had the virus and a thorough investigation is underway.

Furthermore, checkpoints on major roads are inspecting vehicles transporting poultry and disinfecting them.

Most contamination, however, is spread through small transactions at traditional markets, which poses difficulty in tracking how the disease spreads.

The pheasants that died at Seoul?s Gwangjin Ward, for example, were purchased in a traditional poultry market in the southern suburb of Seongnam on April 24. But it is also possible that wild ducks living nearby might have infected them.

The outbreak in Gangwon Province was also traced to small transactions at traditional markets, since the poultry raised by farmers near the affected household were found negative.

[Shiloh]

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Source: http://english.chosun.com/w21data/ht...805070018.html
Updated May.7,2008 09:57 KST

The Real Threat Is Bird Flu

All of the chickens, turkeys and pheasants being raised at a pen owned by a district office in eastern Seoul have perished since April 28 and authorities have confirmed that avian influenza was responsible for the death of the pheasants there. Last Sunday, scores of chickens and ducks died in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, while authorities have confirmed that bird flu was the reason behind the deaths of chickens and ducks in Ulsan, as well as Yeongcheon in North Gyeongsang Province, Suseong district in Daegu, and Anseong in Gyeonggi Province. In just a month, the bird flu outbreak, which was first detected in North Jeolla Province in early April, has spread through the entire country except Jeju Island. So far, 6.5 million chickens and ducks have been culled, a lot more than the 5.2 million that were destroyed during the last bird flu epidemic in 2003-2004.

The cases of bird flu detected in Chuncheon, Yeongcheon and Seoul were passed on from a small handful of chickens and pheasants that were bought in open-air markets. The fact that infected chickens and ducks are being sold in open-air markets signifies that bird flu has penetrated deep into our midst. There are even experts who fear that bird flu might spread to common city-dwelling pigeons.

Until now, the disease erupted only during the cold winter months, but this year it?s happening in temperatures above 25 degrees Celsius. Nor did past outbreaks kill ducks en masse, but that is what is happening now. Experts are not ruling out that the strain this time is a mutated version of the virus that is becoming endemic to Korea. If that is true, then human infections are a real threat. Already, one soldier who took part in the cull showed signs of possible infection.

If avian influenza does spread to humans, the damage it would cause would be horrific. Since 2003, 379 humans have been infected with bird flu in 14 countries, mainly in Southeast Asia, and 63 percent of them or 239 have died. Even the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned back in 2005 that a million people could be hospitalized and 30,000 of them die if bird flu becomes transmissible from human to human here.

Out of the 300 million Americans who have consumed U.S. beef, not a single one has contracted Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human variant of mad cow disease. But out of the people who took part in prevention and culling efforts during the 2003-2004 avian influenza epidemic, four contracted bird flu. This was revealed belatedly in 2005 since the four had taken medication and shown no symptoms. Right now, the entire country is in uproar due to exaggerated mad cow disease fears. But the real threat we face is bird flu, which has crawled up right next to us. The government and the public must wake up.