24.09.2013

LPAI virus, serotype H5N2, have reported at a farm in Hualien County affecting ducks. During the second round of surveillance conducted on the poultry farms around the H5N2 infected duck farm in Hualien County, the H5N2 avian influenza virus was detected from swabs taken from a meat-type duck farm. A total of 13000 ducks were found susceptible to the outbreak, out of which 20 cases were reported. No deaths were recorded, and no birds were destroyed.