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

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Chonbuk, and the spread of avian influenza (AI) is to focus on prevention, our defenses AI authorities. Gyeonggi livestock hygiene institute employees on the 13th Tokyo gachukbangyeoktim chicken, duck-breeding farms, including checks of blood from chaehyeolhan emergency duty, and the holidays do 잋은 / Pan journalists agree sbkim@kgib.co.kr http://209.85.135.104/translate_c?hl...%26year%3D2008
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Distribution positive ducks
Some restaurants and farmers export gaesayuk

9:06:20 PM 2008-04-13



AI positive reaction from the duck on the market breached a hole in the distribution scheme where AI pointed out defenses.

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AI defenses in the 12th jeonbukdo Countermeasures Headquarters liver tests came back positive for AI in the Gimje Geumsan myeonsojae restaurant for a duck yutongdoen together to figure out a path to the police investigation, said commission said.

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On Monday, the restaurant is one of 40 ducks from the distributors to purchase, the existing kiwoodeon Marie, 880 ducks, chickens have been raised with our recent 409 a year.

있다.

AI virus defenses authorities of the duck liver maximum incubation period is about 20 days, considering damages, AI has already infected ducks were exported from the state estimates.

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The AI authorities jeonbukdo defenses defenses, including measures required as a loophole exposed in the future, Tokyo will additionally AI and explain that it is highly likely that you may experience a delight.

있다.

Kimje, and the authorities are jeongeup jeonbukdo defenses against one won gobyeongwonseong AS balsaengji blocking the movement of vehicles transporting livestock, or the prevention of proliferation of defenses, including measures to promote AI.

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AI in the last 11 days yieapseo jeongeup pyesahan Police estimated that the duck breeding farms in 2000 yeomarireul show will be used to feed the rich without arrest ipgeon bangchulhan Mr. Kim said.

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lso said, "The path of circulation and distribution of self-duck does not explain exactly" and that "the duck farm banchulhan AI is already highly likely to be infected as soon paaktorokhal path to the distribution plan," he said.

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Bird flu spreads through southwestern S. Korea

SEOUL, April 13 (Yonhap) --

Suspected bird flu outbreaks continued spreading Sunday as quarantine efforts intensified to contain the deadly disease, which appeared in the country in late March for the first time in about two years.

The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said Sunday that another suspected outbreaks of avian influenza was discovered in Muan, South Jeolla province.

It said the latest discovery brings the total number of confirmed and suspected H5 type bird flu cases as of 9 a.m. to 29 for this year.

The first confirmed case of the virulent strain of the avian influenza was found in Jeongeup in North Jeolla province, 73 kilometers north of Muan.

Authorities said that in addition to the Muan case, four more reports of suspected outbreak were filed on Saturday.

They said tightened quarantine inspections and limits on the movement of birds, people and vehicles are in effect for Yeongam, Naju, Gimje, Jeoneup and Muan in the southwest of the country.

The bird flu has yet to spread east and there have been no reports of sudden deaths of birds outside of the Jeolla region.

The ministry said over 1.3 million ducks and chickens have been culled and buried so far, with about 90,000 others being destroyed to prevent the further spread of avian influenza.

Local authorities in South Jeolla province, meanwhile, confirmed that the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu killed off chickens at a farm in Yeongam, and said a province-wide alert has been issued in an effort to stem the spread of the outbreak.

This is the first confirmed virulent bird flu case in South Jeolla province, with past cases taking place in North Jeolla province.

The H5N1 is suspected of having caused human deaths particularly in Southeast Asia.

Local and central government officials, meanwhile, said that the latest outbreaks have yet to cause serious drops in the prices of chickens, ducks and eggs.

This, they said, is an indication that South Korean consumers are no longer overreacting to the bird flu that has not yet led to any human sickness in the country.

South Korea has been hit twice before by the disease, once in the winter of 2003-2004 and once in 2005-2006, resulting in considerable loss of property and a sudden drop in demand for poultry.

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South Korea fails to stop the spread of avian influenza [4-13-08]

South Korean authorities today acknowledged that they have not been able to stop the spread of deadly to humans variety of avian influenza.

According to the agricultural authorities, a new outbreak of the H5N1 virus - already 29 - I account in the country since the beginning of the year - recorded in the south-west province of the Republic of Korea in Jeollanam-do.

Previously, bird flu has been detected in the province located north of Jeollabuk-do.

In these areas intensively quarantine inspections, imposed severe restrictions on the movement of people and transportation.

In preventive purposes in the country has destroyed 1.3 million chickens.

In the near future, plans to score about 90 thousand birds.

Since the beginning of the century in South Korea has twice experienced severe outbreaks of bird flu - in the year 2003-04 and 2005-06. / / Itar-Tass
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Source: http://english.chosun.com/w21data/ht...804140023.html

10th Highly Pathogenic Bird Flu Case Confirmed

A case of bird flu at a chicken farm in Yeongam County, South Jeolla Province, has been confirmed to have been caused by the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain. As a result, the number of H5N1 flu cases has increased to 10 in the Jeolla provinces.

Quarantine authorities are conducting tests of 18 assumed bird flu cases to find whether they are of the strain, which can affect humans. The targets include six farms in Gimje, North Jeolla Province, and in South Jeolla Province, which are more than 10 km from the initially infected farms.

The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said that since the bird flu case at the Yeongam chicken farm was confirmed to be highly pathogenic, it culled 310,000 chickens at 13 chicken farms within 3 km of the initially infected farm. The spread of bird flu will reach its peak in the middle of this week, when the results of ongoing tests will come out, a ministry official said.

(englishnews@chosun.com )

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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>New bird flu cases reported from South Korea

14.04.2008, 11.18


</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR class=news><TD></TD><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"> SEOUL, April 14 (Itar-Tass) - Bird flu keeps spreading in South Korea despite strict quarantine measures imposed at the end of March. Starting from Saturday, eight new bird flu centres have been registered in the province Cholla-namdo and the neighbouring province Cholla-pukto, the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries reported on Monday.
All in all, 32 cases of bird flu have been registered in south-western regions of the country this year. The deadly H5N1 strain was confirmed in some of them.
The authorities are taking measures to localize the bird flu centres. Over 1.3 million ducks and chickens have been culled at poultry farms. Another 100,000 poultry are yet to be liquidated. Transportation of poultry and conveyance of people are banned within the radius of ten kilometres from infected farms.
South Korea had several outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, in the winter of 2003-2003 and 2005-2006. Poultry farms sustained major damage, and demand for poultry meat and eggs fell.
A major concern is the possibility of mutation into a disease that easily passes from one human to another, triggering a global pandemic.
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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>Concerns grow as quarantines fail to halt flu
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Two more suspected outbreaks reported on bird farms in Jeolla

April 15, 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"><TABLE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 10px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=10 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD width=15></TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD width=18></TD><TD style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">Owners of poultry farms in Jeongeup, Gimje and Iksan in North Jeolla, where there was an outbreak of bird flu yesterday, rally to demand compensation from the government for the slaughtering of their chickens and ducks. [YONHAP]</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Despite expanded quarantine efforts, two more suspected cases of bird flu were reported in southwest Korea yesterday, heightening public concerns.
One case was reported each in South Jeolla and North Jeolla, where all 32 possible and confirmed cases have occurred since April 4, the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries announced yesterday.
The virus kills poultry and has the potential to spread to humans, though that has never happened in Korea.
Although the agriculture ministry has been strictly restricting the movement of birds, vehicles and people within a 10-kilometer (6-mile) radius of any of the infected farms, along with conducting intensified disinfection operations, the spread of the flu has shown no sign of abating.
??I can??t totally understand why the bird flu has been spreading to other places even though the government has been doing quarantine operations,?? said Lee Seong-do, 29, of Seoul. ??I am worried about the spread of avian influenza because it can be transmitted to humans.??
According to the ministry, the latest potential cases happened in Hampyeong, South Jeolla and Iksan, North Jeolla.
The first confirmed outbreak of bird flu occurred at a poultry farm in Gimje, 241 kilometers southwest of Seoul.
Of the 32 cases reported, a total of 15 cases of H5N1 have been confirmed at 14 farms in Gimje and Jeongeup in North Jeolla, and one in Yeongam in South Jeolla.
The National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service is conducting tests in the other cases.
The results will be revealed Thursday, the service said.
The nonstop spread of avian influenza has resulted in the slaughter of more than 1.3 million ducks and chickens and the disposal of 30 million eggs, the government body said.
??According to our plan, we have killed all of the ducks and chickens within a three-kilometer radius of the bird flu sites in Jeongeup, Gimje and Yeongam,?? said Kim Yong-sang, an official of the ministry.
??Also, we have killed all of the ducks within a 10 kilometer radius of the avian influenza locations in Jeongeup and Gimje.??
Korea has experienced bird flu outbreaks three times before. Millions of poultry were slaughtered in the winter of 2003-2004, in 2005-2006 and in the spring of 2007.
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The government said Sunday it was examining cases reported from chicken and duck farms in the two areas.

The chicken farm in Iksan is 20 kilometers away from the farm where bird flu first broke out in Gimje. The duck farm in Hampyeong is 50 kilometers away from a contaminated site in Yeongam. Both are outside the ten-kilometer "watch zone."

Five more farms in the first infected area are confirmed to have the H-Five strain, bringing the total of confirmed or suspected cases to 32. Fifteen of those have been confirmed. http://english.kbs.co.kr/news/newsvi...key=2008041415</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

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AI Iksan… Chonbuk proliferation of 'emergency'
Iksan got six mobile command post install blocking strengthen defenses

작성 : 2008-04-14

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On April 14, former employees gimjesi at lunch in the cafeteria for promoting the consumption of chicken had sisikhoe Samgyetang. </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

Avian influenza (AI) outbreak has spread to nearby areas Iksan emergency.

익산

Iksan is working on the emergency and Gunsan in. Buan and actively blocking their defenses.

들어갔다.

According to the New Year's Day on April 13 Iksan Iksan hwangdeungmyeon cause our chicken from the village doctor, Mo. yanggyejang out avian influenza as a block to prevent the spread of AI defenses strengthened as the system went into emergency duty.

의뢰했다.

3 in the morning until 14 days avian influenza balsaengji tojongdal salcheobun sunk both the number of processing 12,500, and the current National Science sugeohae pyesahan the chicken gageommul geomyeokwon for inspection at the commission.

고병원성 AI 여부는 2-3일후에 나올 예정이다.

AI is scheduled to come out in 2-3 days gobyeongwonseong.

있다.

Gimje along with a large poultry iksanjiyeok just beyond the end of hyeongseongdwae gobyeongwonseong resolved if there is a lot of concern, and the spread of wavelengths.

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The city will occur in the adjacent areas (wards) winning the best feed in front of the plant, the road between Iksan hamyeol, rhythmic movement hwangdeung entrance of the village, 23 beongukdo mungyo Mason, hwangdeung wonsingi Ghost and the mobile command post offices to install additional preventive haneundeung AI hwakjin Block began for defenses.

했다.

Buan is 15 points from AI occurred within a 10km radius of 3km ~ all sunk salcheobunhae decided to duck.

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If the target is jusan haenganmyeon, security, etc., if AI julpo points raised within a radius of 20 million farmers Marie 28.

예정이다.

Army officials for processing all these ducks yeoninwon 660 people, including gulsakgi transport vehicles and equipment, such as putting finish will be sunk as soon as possible.

했다.

AI is also the military headquarters jeonbangwi proliferation as a measure to install the pavilion and the poultry farm operations bangje yechal and getting team members.

있다.

AI defenses, and also to install Gunsan patrol actively blocking out.

했다.

The city has been reinforced and ordinal yujihaeon yechal activities Mapo Bridge, a major access road geumamri 2-3 defenses in the post offices, seolchiki.

또로 했다.

In addition, poultry breeding farms, and to expand the supply of drugs defenses, telephone yechal Expand activities.

한편

Meanwhile, on December 14 at lunch yigeonsik gimjesi markets, including former employees are enlisted to promote the consumption of chicken in the cafeteria for Samgyetang sisikhoe held. http://209.85.135.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=ko%7Cen&u=http://www.jjan.kr/local/iksan/default.asp%3Fst%3D2%26newsid%3D2008041418051101%2 6dt%3D20080415 I know its hard to read.This site always has news stories that don't translate well.Anyone that has a better Korean Translation machine is welcome to have at it or post the machine link It looks like the mlitary is heavily involved,lots of major roadblocks and quarintines and the end of the spread is nowhere in site

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Source: http://english.donga.com/srv/service...=2008041515578

Loophole in Bird Flu Quarantine

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APRIL 15, 2008 03:08


Amid a series of reports regarding suspected outbreaks of the H5N1 bird flu, the government confirmed that ducks infected with the virus had been illegally taken out from the quarantine zone.

The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries announced on Monday that it is thoroughly investigating a possible outbreak of the bird flu at a chicken breeding farm in Iksan, North Jeolla Province, and a duck breeding farm in Hampyeong, South Jeolla Province. Both cases were reported on Sunday.

In regards to the chicken farm, doubts have risen over quarantine management as the farm in Iksan was visited by a retail dealer who had been in contact with bird flu-infected ducks.

According to the ministry and the Gimje Police Station, the 37-year-old dealer identified only by his surname Park had sold the H5N1 positive ducks to a restaurant in Geumsan-myeon, Gimje, on Saturday from a farm located in Yongji-myeon, Gimje, which was included in the alert zone after a suspected outbreak had been reported there.

Park bought 600 ducks from the farm between April 4 and 6, and sold some 40 of them to a duck seller, identified only by his surname Kim, who then sold them to a restaurant attached to the farm in Gimje.

The farm in question was located within the alert zone, about 1.7 kilometers away from another farm where the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu was detected for the first time. Movements of poultry have been under strict control in the area.

The probe found that Park sold 360 ducks among the remaining 560 to some 20 restaurants in six cities and districts including Jeonju, Gimje, Buan and Jeongeup, and buried the remainders.

After meeting Park, Kim visited restaurants and chicken breeding farms several times. Among those places, the restaurant in Geumsan and the chicken farm in Iksan have each reported suspected outbreaks of bird flu.

A total of 32 cases of suspected outbreaks of bird flu have been either reported or found as of Monday, and 15 of them had been confirmed so far.

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<!!--subtitlestart--><!!--subtitleend--> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=news01 vAlign=top><!!--bodystart-->Bird flu is spreading out of control. In the 14 days since a suspected case of bird flu was reported in Gimje, North Jeolla Province on April 1, 35 poultry farms in North and South Jeolla provinces have been confirmed to have had their entire stocks of ducks or chickens wiped out. And the route of infection in a bird flu case in Yeongam, South Jeolla Province has yet to be ascertained. That means there is a source of infection and a path of transmission which authorities have been unable to pinpoint. Under these circumstances, there are fears that chicken and other poultry farms will be wiped out.
A weak link in the government's quarantine system has been exposed. One duck farm located just 1.7 km away from the infected farm in Gimje is said to have secretly sold its poultry to a distributor between April 4-6, even though a ban had been placed on the transport of chickens and ducks in the area since April 2. This dealer carried the ducks on his truck through six different cities, including Jeonju, Jeongeup, Buan and Iksan, selling them to restaurants. Some of those ducks sold to a restaurant in Gimje tested positive for avian influenza. It appears quarantine officials simply put up transport ban signs but did nothing to enforce it. Experts believe a mutated form of the bird flu virus may have emerged this time, as the spread of avian influenza is showing no signs of abating even though temperatures are rising to almost 20 degrees Celsius. Authorities must pay very close attention to this observation. The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on Monday expanded the range of farms subject to mandatory culling from a 3-km radius from an infected site to 10 km. Judging from the momentum with which the virus is spreading, this measure should have been enforced much sooner. Authorities have been dealing with the situation in a very easy-going manner. There is said to be a severe shortage of workers at the sites where chickens and ducks are being culled. The entire public, not to mention government workers in related ministries, needs to come together to deal with this situation. If this virus is a mutation that can be harmful to humans, then the situation takes on a whole new dimension. Out of 379 confirmed cases of human infections of the bird flu virus reported in 14 countries around the world, 63 percent or 239 have died. Advanced countries have stockpiled enough of the treatment Tamiflu to administer to 10 to 20 percent of their populations. But Korea has stockpiled enough for just 2.6 percent of its population or just 1.4 million people. Korea has secured no supplies of a preventive vaccine in the event of a pandemic. The government must brace for the worst-case scenario. <!!--bodyend-->

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The government said Monday that 32 outbreaks of the bird flu in southwestern South Korea have either been confirmed or are suspected, despite intensified quarantine efforts.

The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said two new cases were reported in Hampyeong and Iksan late Sunday.


After the first outbreak occurred in Gimje, North Jeolla Province early this month, bird flu cases were reported in Jeongeup, 27 kilometers from Gimje, then in Naju and Yeongam in South Jeolla Province.

Gimje is 262 kilometers south of Seoul, while Jeongeup, Naju, Hampyeong and Yeongam are all located further south. Iksan lies 17 kilometers northeast of Gimje.

??The Yeongam outbreak reported over the weekend is viewed as a separate outbreak from the others," said Kim Chang-seob, the ministry's chief veterinary officer. The region is located 384 kilometers from the capital city.

Of the 32 cases tallied so far, 20 have tested positive for the H5 virulent strain of the avian influenza.

It said all ducks and chickens infected by the virulent strain have been culled and buried along with those birds on nearby farms.

Tests are underway on the remaining cases, but experts said that most may be linked to the H5 strain.

The movement of birds and humans within a 10-kilometer radius of infected farms is being strictly controlled to prevent the further spread of the bird flu.

The ministry and the police, meanwhile, said they are investigating two poultry distributors who may have sold contaminated birds from the infected areas to local restaurants.

Shipping contaminated animals could result in fines and criminal charges.

"The two confessed that they bypassed quarantine lines and sold a total of 18,000 chickens to 18 small farms and 47 eateries as far north as South Chungcheong Province," Kim said. All birds handled by the two distributors are being destroyed before tests are conducted to see if they are sick or not.

He speculated that this year's outbreak may be the most damaging yet, with over 2 million birds being culled in the Gimje region alone. In the 2003 outbreak, 5.6 million birds were destroyed, while in the 2006 outbreak 2.8 million were culled and buried.

On media reports that a "mutant form" of the bird flu may have hit the country this year, quarantine officials said DNA testing is still being conducted.

"It will take at least another week to decipher the genetic makeup of the virus killing off birds this month, so reports that the latest outbreak is due to a mutated virus are inaccurate and speculative," said a quarantine expert.

She also said that even if the latest outbreak was triggered by the so-called Southeast Asian bird flu strain, it cannot be said to be more deadly than the "Chinese type" that hit the country in the winter of 2006.

People living in countries like China, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia have contracted bird flu, with 238 dying as a result.

"All H5N1 are virulent and can pose health hazards to humans," the expert said. SEOUL, April 14 (Yonhap) http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/engli...al/281950.html

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Past outbreaks and other aspects "potential new virus."
"Mingwanhak joint research scheme defenses urgent measures"
AI outbreak, or more signs
Concentration occurs in spring
I do not know infection
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Recent avian influenza (AI) in North Jeolla Province and South Jeolla doendeda proliferation, chuungyeoul a new outbreak of the virus mutated and prejudices are broken, and even raised the possibility for resolving fundamental AI. Mingwanhak joint research and intellectual imperative that the establishment of the research center.

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Livestock farmers, including 14 days of academia, Jeonnam Province and South Jeolla region, according to a group of chickens and ducks, including our report on a suspected AI itttareun timing of the onset and moving, and the past and the different infection underway.

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AI is the beginning of this past winter, in November and December and mid March, this time in the sun until balbyeongdwae defenses have been intensive, but this year the temperature has to go up to around 20, in April, and the outbreak is concentrated.

있다.

AI virus is the oldest 4-degree cold weather in the winter outbreak that prejudices are alive only kkaejyeotgo winter, when the migratory birds are back at work since the influx balsaengdwae infection route is also different, or could not clearly pointed out the fact that the limitation measures.

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On the other hand, is concentrated in the past year, our chicken is a strange duck of the group do our part.

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Because of experts with AI and the possibility of a mutated virus beuruselrabyeong emerging, such as mad cow 'argument common plague' to resolve the fundamental research and joint research center mingwanhak imperative that the establishment of this year.

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Another professor of avian disease and the quality of the AI virus bunbyeon veterinary systems and vehicles, in addition to moving people wind up on the possibility jegidwae propagated by the current salcheobun sunk, and ways to improve defenses measures should be sanitized with salcheobungwa claimed.

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Revelation of a veterinary expert, "AI is the recent two to three years, and the cycle repeats, a powerful new antibiotics, and despite a thorough defenses greater threat to the ecosystem is adapting to come" and that "the argument between a heterogeneous plague infection common mutation and the adaptive response to the treatment and research for a blade system is urgent, "he said.

Bakjunyoung Jeonnam branch, "Recent myeotnyeonsayi for recurring mingwanhak AI research institutions and identify the underlying cause yeongyehae should," "sulso of Livestock, Health and Environmental Systems Research Institute organized a network of related professionals to facilitate different," he said emergency instructions .

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Chunnam a livestock farming area, "do not know the cause of the farmers and pihaeman reported to be consumed by insecurity of the people the government is to relieve pain after haruppalri essentially preventive measures need to be prepared," he said. http://209.85.135.104/translate_c?hl...%26section%3D1

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Chicken and duck consumption, decreasing exports stopped

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Half of the restaurant sales distributors' ttuk 'ed

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Harmless human safety products distribution market ikhimyeon masks

있다.

Yeongam gobyeongwonseong avian influenza (AI), and Naju, and the final confirmation of the region concerned about the spread globally Chunnam yukgagong company's sales plummeted, and distributors, such as decreasing consumption of 'AI hupokpung' is a reality.

있다.

Chicken and duck breeding farms and related industries are totally harmless to the human body and learn to eat if you emphasize that the freight and promote consumption.

있다.

Local companies and distributors, and the 14th yukgagong According to a representative of the local firm yukgagong chickens and ducks raised in AI Chonbuk ㈜ FINE Korea on April 13 suspected cases in the AI in Yeongam gobyeongwonseong confirmed as revenue plummeted, and suspended exports to hit jikgyeoktan .

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AI suspected cases occurred in the company's Chonbuk while sales began to decrease youngambal AI simhwadwae each day from 20 to 30 percent this month sales decreased approximately 2.8 billion won of sales expected to decline.
Japanese markets are completely disconnect the reported decline in exports of 3 million US dollars.

Chicken and duck-especially the restaurants are experiencing severe difficulties in running a surge AI.

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AI is confirmed in Jeonnam gobyeongwonseong In the case of a large restaurant sales decreased by 50 percent and 70 percent of sales geupgamhan small restaurant in the whole year.

말했다.

Ohrijip Kwangju, a Western official said, "AI surge with the beginning of sales decreased by half, as is confirmed yesterday gobyeongwonseong Yeongam in more revenue falling," "AI occurs, it is at least six months before sales of reparation. , "he said.

Another large local retailers do Yeongam gobyeongwonseong AI has been confirmed on the 13th day of sales fell to 40% than usual. In the case of AI gwangjujeom Lotte Department Store in Naju suspected cases occurred in the last 10 when he stopped selling duck meat.

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Nonghyup brands' long peers' recent chicken sales have decreased by 20 percent and more visible chikinjip also suffering from a slump in consumption.

AI distributors are suspected cases in the 15 to 20 percent drop in consumption geuchyeoteuna, gobyeongwonseong confirmed as sales plummeted by 40 to 50 percent were serious, such as the poor quality of consumer concerns.
Accordingly, the relevant authorities, including jeonnamdo targeted at the consumer market and distribute the chickens and ducks are safe as usual, and asked sobihae said.

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Jeonnamdo gimjonggi chukjeong said, "Consumers are in the retail market, which is a very safe meat, chicken, duck," "The strength and the courage to push them to livestock farmers to survive the difficulties with wisdom so that you can gather different," he said.

Experts say the "chicken and duck more than five minutes at a temperature of more than 75 ℃ life or fried food is not concerned if infected people," "the world, people are eating chicken and duck stuck in the cases of avian influenza so far." he said. EDIT "SO FAR ,SO GOOD"

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Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/middl.../idUSSEO126287

South Korea probes new suspected bird flu cases
Mon Apr 14, 2008 9:57pm EDT

SEOUL, April 15 (Reuters) - South Korea said on Tuesday it was investigating four new suspected cases of bird flu, including one near Seoul, adding to a string of recent outbreaks and raising concerns the disease may be spreading across the country.

South Korea has confirmed 11 cases of bird flu in less than two weeks, but all have been contained to the southwest of the country -- North and South Jeolla provinces, some 320 km (200 miles) south of Seoul.

"We have received four fresh reports of suspected bird flu cases on Monday and one is from a poultry farm in Pyongtaek city in Kyonggi province," the Farm Ministry said in a statement.

Pyongtaek is just 60 km south of Seoul.

South Korea, which has culled more than half a million poultry this month, said it would continue quarantine work in suspected areas and encourage poultry consumption amid rising consumer concern.

Duck and chicken prices have dropped 10 percent this month, while chicken sales at four major retailers surveyed by the ministry showed a 20 percent decline.

South Korea had seven outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 strain between November 2006 and March 2007 and spent 58 billion won ($59.22 million) on quarantine measures.

There had been 238 human deaths globally from the H5N1 strain and 376 confirmed cases of infection since 2003, according to World Health Organisation data.

A major concern is the possibility of mutation into a disease that easily passes from one person to another, triggering a global pandemic. (Reporting by Miyoung Kim; Editing by Nick Macfie)