Saturday, March 3, 2012

Surprise! Taiwan's first outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza #H5N1 #BIRDFLU

 [13:27]Following the question on U.S. beef, chicken is also reported the H5N2 epidemic. (Reporter Sioux men photo)[WASHINGTON] Taiwan startling news of the first outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza, the Council of Agriculture Health Inspection and Quarantine Bureau held an emergency press conference this morning, stressed that the infection of chickens in Tainan and Changhua not reaching the market, called people do not have to worry about. It is understood that, although studied for other sites in the chicken farm in a radius of 3 km monitoring no unusual but the Changhua there are other farms suspected to be infected, is still in laboratory testing, the number of chicken farmers of this have expressed great concern...  http://iservice.libertytimes.com.tw/liveNews/news.php?no=610545&type=%E7%94%9F%E6%B4%BB&Slots=Live

Chickens were killed but the eggs went to market.. no problem 

H5N2 eggs CDC: cooked no problem
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1 comment:

Duff Smith said...

Sri Lanka, South Africa, now Taiwan... this H5N2 thing is really taking off. Maybe I'm going to have to change the name of my FB page.