Today, on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, another quail farm in Lukang Township, Changhua County was infected with the epidemic. This is the second this year and the fourth since December 30 last year. More than 220,000 quail were culled humanely.

(Provided by Changhua Department of Defense)

[Reporter Zhang Congqiu/Changhua Report] The bird flu epidemic is still at its peak. In less than a month this year, the number of poultry culled by humane medicine due to the epidemic is approaching the total number of last year. The epidemic is more serious than last year; The county also reported that a quail farm in Lukang Town was confirmed to be infected with the new H5N1 subtype highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, and 103,125 quails were culled. A total of 228,544 quails were culled.

Last year, a total of 21 poultry farms in the county were diagnosed with H5N1 or H5N2 subtype highly pathogenic avian influenza, of which 2 were quail farms that were relatively rare in the past. There have been rumors of the fall of layer chicken farms and quail farms. In total, 2 of the 4 farms this year have been quail farms. If we push forward to the outbreak of 2 quail farms in Hemei Town on December 30 last year, within 30 days, Changhua Four quail farms in the county have been found by the virus, accounting for nearly 20% of the 22 quail farms in the county. The epidemic is raging.

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Dong Mengzhi, director of the Animal Epidemic Prevention Institute of Changhua County, said that on January 24, a quail farm in Lukang Township actively reported that there were abnormal deaths of quails in the farm. On the 27th, a new type of H5N1 subtype highly pathogenic avian influenza virus was confirmed to be infected by the Domestic Health Institute. The epidemic prevention personnel of the Animal Defense Institute completed the culling, clearing and disinfection of the quail farm on the evening of the 28th.

Dong Mengzhi pointed out that in the past, epidemic prevention focused on large-scale chickens, ducks, geese and other water and land poultry. The organization scale of quail was not as large as that of water and land poultry, so epidemic prevention was easy to be neglected. It spread rapidly, and the Institute of Animal Defense will especially strengthen guidance to the industry to implement biosafety and epidemic prevention.

Since the beginning of winter last year, this wave of epidemics has been mainly caused by migratory birds carrying the virus to resident birds. The resident bird virus is brought into poultry farms by vehicles and people, and then transmitted to poultry. urgent.

On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, a quail farm in Lukang Township, Changhua County was confirmed to be infected with the new H5N1 subtype highly pathogenic avian influenza virus. On the evening of the 28th, the anti-epidemic personnel of the Animal Defense Institute completed the culling, cleaning and disinfection work of the quail farm.

(Provided by Changhua Department of Defense)

The avian flu epidemic in Changhua continues to spread. In less than 30 days from last year to January this year, 4 quail farms were infected with the disease.

(Provided by Changhua Department of Defense)