xinhuanet : declared in Taiwan reports more H5N6 bird flu cases - Xinhua

TAIPEI, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- Taiwan has reported three H5N6 bird flu cases this week, and authorities are reinforcing measures to prevent further infections. The first H5N6 case was confirmed Feb. 5 in a dead goose found on a farm road in eastern Hualien county. Its farms have reported 13 avian flu cases this year, though mainly caused by the H5N2 or H5N8 virus. More than 3,000 turkeys on the farm died in an unusually short space of time before the authority conducted tests to confirm the virus. On Feb. 11, samples from 3,789 slaughtered ducks, from a farm near where the gosling was found, also tested positive for the virus.

Beijing joins list of mainland cities reporting bird flu cases in humans

Beijing authorities have reported the city's first human case of H7N9 bird flu infection as the mainland tries to contain pockets of outbreaks across the nation. China's Guangzhou has third of live poultry markets contaminated with bird flu, survey findsIn Beijing, a 68-year-old man became the city's first confirmed human case this year. Taiwan is battling the H5N6 strain of the bird flu – the same one that has ravished Japan and South Korea. The China Centre for Disease Control and Prevention warned last month that the peak season for bird flu would come one month earlier than usual. Hong Kong man dies in first imported case of bird flu this winterThe live poultry trade has also been halted in Hunan, ­Sichuan and Guangdong.


TAIPEI Taiwan has culled nearly 130,000 poultry since the start of this year as authorities on Tuesday reported a fresh strain of bird flu cases on the island. But in recent days, confirmed cases of H5N6 bird flu were found on poultry farms in Chiayi and Tainan near the western coast and Hualien on the eastern coast, Huang said. Earlier this month, Taiwan reported its first imported human case of bird flu in a 69-year-old Taiwanese man, who was diagnosed with the H7N9 bird flu virus after returning from travel to southern China. According to the bureau, most of the birds culled this year so far were afflicted with the H5N2 and H5N8 strains of the bird flu. The highly pathogenic H5N6 avian flu has been confirmed in three cities and counties, the Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine said.



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