Korea: Detection of H5N8 virus in the geese

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Industry of South Korea has just released test results of three wild geese at Dongrim Reservoir, Gochang District, in North Jeolla Province infected with H5N8 virus.

>>>Korea: Detection of H5N8 influenza virus in ducks

Dead geese belong to geese in the reservoir above, where the ducks migrated naturally to death.

This is the first time that geese have been infected with bird flu.

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Researchers are leaning on the assumption that the H5N8 avian influenza virus is a highly infectious highly virulent strain and is currently undergoing genetic analysis.

In addition, the authorities discovered three more wild ducks in the Lake Geumgang area, which is contiguous between North Jeolla province and Chungcheong province. Currently, the authorities are conducting tests to confirm whether the three wild ducks are infected with bird flu.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Food Industry has identified an additional duck farm in Julpo commune, Buan district, North Jeolla province infected with avian influenza virus.

Thus, five duck farms in Gochang and Buan districts (North Jeolla province) were found to be infected with H5N8 bird flu virus.

It was destroyed 410,000 birds at 30 farms due to fears of spread, of which 327,000 ducks and 83,000 chickens with a total loss of 4.39 billion won (approximately 4.1 million). USD).