07.12.2012

The farm with ~800 chickens in outlying Penghu County was confirmed to have been infected with the HPAI H5N2 virus.
Clinical suspected cases were notified by the owner because of the abnormal mortality rate. The local government conducted movement restriction, epidemiological investigation and sampling on the index native chicken farm and destroyed all chickens as the measure for precaution on 22 November 2012 in accordance with its authority. The results of RT-PCR and pathogenicity tests confirmed this event as H5N2 HPAI.