Avian Influenza (H5) Antigen Detected in Busan Gijang-gun... Emergency Quarantine Measures Implemented

Quarantine workers are conducting culling at a farm where the H5 subtype of avian influenza antigen was detected.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Hwang Du-yeol] On the 19th, the H5 subtype antigen of avian influenza was detected at a farm in Gijang-gun, Busan, prompting the Busan city government to implement emergency quarantine measures.

According to Busan city, the farm is located in Ilgwang-myeon, Gijang-gun, and was raising a total of 226 poultry, including chickens. From the 18th to the 19th, about 30 of these poultry died from avian influenza, and the remaining poultry were all culled around 11 p.m. on the 19th.

Currently, the Animal Hygiene Testing Laboratory of the Health and Environment Research Institute and Gijang-gun are conducting proactive initial quarantine measures such as installing access control checkpoints and restricting entry to the affected farm, as well as conducting epidemiological investigations.

Busan city has also designated a quarantine zone centered around the affected farm and imposed movement restrictions on all poultry raised within this zone.

Additionally, quarantine personnel were immediately deployed to conduct telephone surveillance of all poultry farms, identify the cause of the outbreak, and carry out epidemiological investigations to prevent further spread.

The quarantine zone includes 211 farms in Busan city, raising a total of 4,796 poultry. Across the entire city, 239 farms are raising 53,943 poultry.

A city official stated, “To prevent the spread of avian influenza during the winter season, a ban on free-range poultry farming is currently being enforced nationwide. We ask all poultry farms to strictly comply with this order to prevent infection from wild birds and to help stop the spread of infection from infected individuals.”

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