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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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 Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 9:26 pm Post subject: Possible Bird Flu in S. Korea |
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Anyone have more info?
Bird Flu in Iksan?
Ah, here's some news:
South Korea: Poultry farm has suspected B2B H5N1
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Via Reuters, some alarming news: S. Korea poultry farm has suspected bird flu case. Excerpt:
South Korea's farm ministry said on Thursday it had discovered a suspected case of bird flu at a poultry farm in the southwest of the country, which could be the country's first outbreak in about three years.
The official said about 6,000 chickens at a farm in North Cholla province had died this week. The remaining 6,000 or so poultry at the farm would now be culled.
"This case appears quite likely to involve highly pathogenic avian influenza," Kim Chang-sub, a top official at the ministry's quarantine department, told a news conference.
"The final results of our testing should be known on Nov. 25," Kim said, adding he would not speculate as to whether it was the H5N1 strain, which is potentially deadly to human beings... |
S.Korea poultry farm has suspected bird flu case
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By Kang Shinhye
KWACHON, South Korea, Nov 23 (Reuters) - South Korea's farm ministry said on Thursday it had discovered a suspected case of bird flu at a poultry farm in the southwest of the country, which could be the country's first outbreak in about three years...
(all basically the same...)
...The World Health Organisation said that as of Nov. 13, there had been 258 cases of human infection of the H5N1 strain since 2003, killing 153 people. Many of the victims were asians, with 98 deaths in Vietnam and Indonesia, it said. |
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ChuckECheese
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:54 am Post subject: |
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Very nice to know... 
Today is Thanksgiving day and I just had some KFC chicken today. |
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endofthewor1d
Joined: 01 Apr 2003
Location: the end of the wor1d.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:39 pm Post subject: |
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| my Cell BioTech stock hit the roof yesterday because of this. seems there's been a case in pyeongtek (sp?) since then. should be another good day for the stocks, but i just might pull off a hat trick if the chicken farm next to the campus here goes under and the air doesn't smell like chicken *beep* anymore. |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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| What happened to the glorious role of kimchi in defeating the menace of avian influenza? Remember all those stories around the time of the initial outbreak about kimchi-laced chicken feed pellets? |
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poet13
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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| FREE CHICKEN!!! COOOOOOLLLLLL. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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| ChuckECheese wrote: |
Very nice to know...
Today is Thanksgiving day and I just had some KFC chicken today. |
Don't worry, KFC isn't real chicken anyways. |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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| jaganath69 wrote: |
| What happened to the glorious role of kimchi in defeating the menace of avian influenza? Remember all those stories around the time of the initial outbreak about kimchi-laced chicken feed pellets? |
Chickens don't eat kimchi.
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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Suspected Bird Flu Reported in Iksan
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By Kim Yon-se
Staff Reporter
Quarantine officials enter a village in Iksan, North Cholla Province, Thursday, to examine the area after a suspected outbreak of bird flu was reported at a chicken farm there. /Yonhap
A suspected outbreak of bird flu was reported at a chicken farm in Iksan, North Cholla Province, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry said Thursday, affecting a group of brood hens. The ministry said that depending on the type of avian influenza, the highly contagious virus could be transmitted to humans.
The farm is a subcontractor of Korea�s largest chicken meat provider, Halim, which has more than a 30 percent market share. The plant supplies young chicks to Halim by raising thousands of brood hens.
The National Veterinary Research & Quarantine Service detected the suspected bird flu in the provincial city and the ministry has dispatched a group of inspectors for a detailed investigation.
``It will take several days for us to finish investigations into whether it is real avian influenza and of what type,�� said Ministry spokesman Lee Yang-ho. In an emergency news briefing, the ministry said about 6,000 out of 13,000 brood hens in the plant died between last Sunday and Wednesday.
If the government confirms the influenza as a type that can be transmitted to people, it will issue a nationwide bird flu warning, cautioning against the arrival of migratory birds from northern countries.
The bird flu virus, previously limited to Southeast Asia, has been found among migratory birds in China, Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia since last year.
Halim, also located in Iksan, shut down its online homepage for several hours after the suspected outbreak was reported. |
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Nambucaveman
Joined: 03 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 4:37 am Post subject: |
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bumping this thread up to lock the other one.
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 5:08 am Post subject: |
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| EFLtrainer wrote: |
| jaganath69 wrote: |
| What happened to the glorious role of kimchi in defeating the menace of avian influenza? Remember all those stories around the time of the initial outbreak about kimchi-laced chicken feed pellets? |
Chickens don't eat kimchi.
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These ones did 
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=1289433
Nov. 8, 2005 � Could sauerkraut be the next chicken soup?
The fermented food has been getting a lot of buzz lately, after scientists in Seoul claimed that 11 of 13 infected chickens started to recover from the avian flu after being fed an extract of kimchi, a Korean dish similar to sauerkraut, according to a BBC report. |
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cwemory
Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Location: Gunpo, Korea
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| Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 11:25 pm Post subject: |
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from BBC News:
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S Korea in mass poultry slaughter
South Korean quarantine officials are to slaughter 236,000 poultry after an outbreak of the H5N1 form of bird flu at a chicken farm.
The outbreak occurred at a farm in Iksan, about 250km (155 miles) south of Seoul, earlier this week.
Test results confirmed the outbreak was caused by a type of H5N1 virus, the country's agriculture ministry said.
It said all birds within a 500-metre (1,650-foot) radius would be culled to prevent the virus from spreading.
The ministry also said it would limit the movement of about five million chickens and ducks from 221 farms within a 10-kilometre (six-mile) radius of the outbreak.
Park Yong-jong, a city official in Iksan, said the cull would begin on Sunday morning.
Lee Sang-gil, head of the agriculture ministry's livestock bureau, said no people had been infected.
South Korea killed 5.3 million birds during the last known outbreak of bird flu in 2003.
The H5N1 virus began hitting Asian poultry stocks in 2003, and has killed at least 153 people worldwide.
Most human cases have resulted from contact with infected birds.
Scientists fear the virus could mutate into a form that is more easily transmitted between people, possibly creating a pandemic. |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6184114.stm |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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| So, where did it come from? Imported? Migratory birds? |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:37 am Post subject: |
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Eat Korean Chicken, Get Avian Influenza, Pass "Go", Collect 2 Billion Won.
http://issue.media.daum.net/againAI/200611/27/yonhap/v14860611.html
But even that assurance (enticement?) isn't enough to stop a reported 30% of Koreans from refusing to buy chicken. If you're an eater of defenceless animals, as I sometimes am, you might try the offering at Emart -- the pre-cooked fried & yangyom chicket ajuma was selling 8,000 won boxes for 4,000 and 3,500 won. Dem Careeans iz skeerd, aparuntly.
You know where that 30% of leftover chicken is going, don't you? Well, Don't you?!! it's going to feed the hungry South Korean army. And maybe the starving Nork army. That's the scheme -- keep both armies well fed and glaring at each other, delaying unification as long as possible if not forever, and all the while blaming and swearing at the Americans for "keeping the country divided". I tell you it was all a frame, they only did it 'cos of fame!! Makes no sense but like i care? |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:09 am Post subject: |
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This news really sucks, my father-in-law is in the chickenfeed business, the poor guy doesn't deserve the bad luck he's had...
In related,scarcely believeable news:
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South Korea to kill cats and dogs over bird flu fears
27/11/2006 - 09:58:03
South Korea plans to kill cats and dogs to try to prevent the spread of bird flu after an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 virus at a chicken farm last week, officials said today.
Animal health experts, however, suggested it was �a bit of an extreme measure� when there was no definitive scientific evidence to suggest that cats or dogs could pass the virus to humans.
Quarantine officials have already killed 125,000 chickens within a 1,650-foot radius of the outbreak site in Iksan, about 155 miles south of Seoul, the Agriculture Ministry said.
Officials began slaughtering poultry yesterday, a day after they confirmed that the outbreak was caused by the H5N1 strain.
They plan to slaughter a total of 236,000 poultry, as well as an unspecified number of other animals, including pigs, and all dogs and cats in the area by Thursday, the ministry said. About six million eggs also will be destroyed, it said.
Slaughtering cats and dogs near an area infected with bird flu would be highly unusual in Asia.
Indonesia has killed pigs in the past, but most countries concentrate solely on destroying poultry.
However, it would not be the first time for South Korea to kill cats and dogs due bird flu concerns. An official at the Agriculture Ministry said South Korea had slaughtered cats and dogs along with 5.3 million birds during the last known outbreak of bird flu in 2003.
Another ministry official, Kim Chang-sup, insisted killing cats and dogs to curtail the spread of bird flu was not an unusual practice.
�Other countries do it. They just don�t talk about it,� Kim said, adding that all mammals are potentially subject to the virus and that South Korea is just trying to take all possible precautionary measures.
He declined to comment further.
However, animal experts disputed the validity in culling cats and dogs.
�It�s highly unusual, and it�s not a science-based decision,� said Peter Roeder, a Rome-based animal health expert with the UN�s Food and Agricultural Organisation or FAO, who published research about cats and bird flu earlier this year in the journal Nature. �We�ve got absolutely no reason to believe they�re important,� he said.
Dr Jeff Gilbert, an animal health expert at the FAO in Vietnam, described South Korea�s plan as �a bit of an extreme measure�.
He said dogs and cats have been known to occasionally become infected, but they pose little risk to humans and that in most cases, the animal has contracted the virus through eating infected poultry.
Tigers and snow leopards in a Thailand zoo died in 2003 and 2004 after being fed infected chicken carcasses. Earlier this year, a few domestic cats tested positive for the virus in Europe.
The H5N1 virus began ravaging Asian poultry stocks in late 2003 and has killed at least 153 people worldwide.
So far, the disease remains hard for people to catch, and most human cases have been traced to contact with infected birds. But experts fear it will mutate into a form that is easily spread among people, possibly creating a pandemic that could kill millions.
South Korea has also been hit by a low-grade strain of bird flu that is not harmful to humans.
North Korea, meanwhile, has stepped up prevention measures, by inoculating poultry and closely monitoring migratory birds, the country�s official Korean Central News Agency reported Monday.
Bird flu hit North Korea early last year, prompting the slaughter of about 210,000 chickens and other poultry. No new cases of bird flu have since been reported. |
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=202453266&p=zxz45397z |
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BigBuds
Joined: 15 Sep 2005
Location: Changwon
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| Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:18 am Post subject: |
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From the Korean Herald:
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2006/11/27/200611270038.asp
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Korea on alert for fatal bird flu
The government's confirmation of a fatal type of bird flu that broke out last week has led to the slaughter of thousands of chickens and hundreds of dogs and pigs near the affected poultry farm in the southwest of the country.
The Agriculture Ministry said on Saturday that the bird flu outbreak at the farm in Iksan, North Jeolla Province, was caused by a highly virulent H5N1 strain of avian influenza. It is the country's first outbreak in three years.
Following the mandate of the National Security Council, the government yesterday ordered the culling of 236,000 chickens and ducks at six farms within a 500-meter radius of the initially-infected farm in Iksan, about 250 kilometers south of Seoul. The quarantine also called for the slaughtering of 300 pigs and 577 dogs within the area.
Officials bury over 13,000 slaughtered poultry in Iksan, North Jeolla Province, yesterday as part of efforts to prevent the spread of bird flu. A virulent form of avian influenza broke out last week, affecting thousands of chickens on a poultry farm in Iksan. [The Korea Herald]
Agriculture Minister Park Hong-soo yesterday held an emergency breakfast meeting with senior ministry officials to discuss anti-epidemic measures and prevent the spread of the contagious virus.
The government also quarantined a 10-kilometer radius around the Iksan farm and said it will order additional culling based on test results of livestock in a 3-kilometer radius. Movement of chickens, birds and eggs within a 10-kilometer radius has been banned.
The Agriculture Ministry on Thursday said it suspected bird flu had killed about 6,000 chickens on the Iksan farm.
The discovery comes as the country is already on a high bird flu alert as migratory birds, which can easily spread the life-threatening disease, fly to the Korean Peninsula for the winter, the ministry said. Iksan lies on the pathway of the migratory birds.
Quarantine authorities have banned the shipment of more than 5 million poultry from 221 farms within a 10-km radius of the Iksan farm.
No local residents or quarantine officials have been infected so far, the Agriculture Ministry said.
To ease public fears, however, the ministry said it has launched a campaign to raise awareness that bird flu cannot harm humans if the poultry is well cooked.
Efforts began yesterday with Prime Minister Han Myeong-sook visiting the ministry complex in Gwacheon, south of Seoul, and going out for chicken soup with Agriculture Ministry officials for lunch.
"There is no need for public fear because we are making sure that poultry affected by the virus is immediately destroyed. So there's no chance of it entering the market," said Han. "But I ask ministry officials to inform the public of the measures the government is taking to ensure their safety and to prevent the public from panicking, as well as to minimize damages on related industries," she urged.
The official assured that poultry is "absolutely safe" to consume when it is cooked at temperatures above 75 degrees Celsius for more than five minutes.
Japan suspended poultry imports from Korea on Thursday. It asked for more detailed information from the Korean government.
Korea reported its first outbreak of H5N1 in December 2003. About 5.3 million chickens and ducks valued at 150 billion won ($161 million) were slaughtered within four months.
The H5N1 virus is known to have infected 258 people in 10 countries over the past three years, killing 153 of them, according to the Geneva-based World Health Organization. Seventy-five deaths have been recorded by the WHO this year. This is more than the United Nations agency counted in the previous two years combined.
So far, Korea has reported no human H5N1 cases, according to the WHO.
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