Nearly 60,000 hens have been culled at a poultry farm in Chiayi County after workers reported abnormal deaths of chickens, and cases of the highly contagious H1N1 avian flu were confirmed. These were the country’s first voluntarily reported cases of avian flu this fall.
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00:00Nearly 60,000 hens have been culled in southern Taiwan after the discovery of the highly contagious
00:06H5N1 strain of avian flu. The cull came after workers at a poultry farm in Jiayi County reported
00:12abnormal deaths among their chickens and cases of the pathogen were confirmed.
00:17These were the country's first voluntarily reported cases of avian flu this fall.
00:21Authorities have urged poultry farmers to monitor their livestock and carry out disinfection. They say migratory birds may continue to spread the outbreak.
00:30Japan and South Korea have recently been infected with H5N1.
00:33Migratory birds may continue to spread to southern Taiwan, so we need to take good preventive measures.
00:40Otherwise, these migratory birds may bring the virus in.