Guest World News Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 [attach=full]15894[/attach]Taiwan on Tuesday slaughtered nearly 6,000 geese after 14 more farms were confirmed to have been infected in the latest outbreak of avian influenza that has led to the culling of more than 140,000 birds. "In order to swiftly wipe out the new disease, as long as the samples collected from any farm are confirmed as the H5 virus and the death rates there are high, all the poultry in the farm will be destroyed immediately," agriculture minister Chen Bao-ji told reporters. More than 140,000 birds have been slaughtered since the first outbreak was confirmed at a chicken farm in Pingtung county, where 122,000 chickens were destroyed last week. Continue reading... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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