On the eve of the Qingming holiday, another local chicken farm in Changhua County, a major chicken farming county, was infected with bird flu, and more than 16,000 live chickens in the farm were all culled.

(Provided by Changhua County Animal Epidemic Prevention Office)

[Reporter Zhang Congqiu/Changhua Report] The "poultry" situation in Changhua County is not only bad, but terrible!

The Animal Epidemic Prevention Office of Changhua County confirmed today that another chicken farm in Dacheng Township was infected with bird flu, and all 16,962 chickens in the farm were culled by "euthanasia".

The Animal Prevention Institute stated that on March 28, a local chicken farm in Dacheng and rural areas took the initiative to report that the chickens in the farm had died abnormally. The hospital was confirmed to be infected with the new H5N1 subtype highly pathogenic avian influenza virus. The epidemic prevention personnel of the Animal Defense Institute completed the culling, cleaning and disinfection work of the chicken farm this afternoon.

The Animal Epidemic Prevention Institute reminds poultry industry operators that the weather is gradually warming up and the avian flu epidemic is still raging. Poultry farms and production and marketing operators should still strengthen daily management to reduce poultry stress on the farm, and implement bird-proof measures for poultry houses and access control for people and vehicles For control work, if there is any abnormal death of poultry in the poultry farm, it must take the initiative to report. If it involves concealment and non-reporting, if highly pathogenic avian influenza is detected in the poultry on the farm, the poultry that was culled will not be compensated.