Taiwan: LPAI in poultry
21 January 2010
Taiwan reports an outbreak of H5N2 Low pathogenic avian influenza virus in poultry in Chang-Hua county. There are some 50,000 chickens on this farm.
This outbreak is co-infected with chicken infectious anemia, mycoplasma and avian infectious bronchitis. Disinfection and cleaning of this farm has been conducted and completed. Movement control has been also implemented. 19 poultry farms within 1-km radius of the index farm have been under vigilant monitoring and no clinical or epidemiological evidence of infection has been found.