30.01.2014

An avian influenza case has been confirmed at a chicken farm in Gyeonggi Province. The case was diagnosed as H5 in a chicken breeding farm in Hwaseong.  Past cases have been restricted to the Jeolla and Chuncheong region in the country's southwestern region. The Gyeonggi region that surrounds the capital city of Seoul is home to the largest number of chicken farms in the country.
The government suspects migratory birds have spread the latest outbreak. The virulent H5N8 strain of AI was identified in a group of wild ducks found dead Jan. 17 at a reservoir near a duck farm that first reported the disease.