SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The avian influenza (AI) outbreaks have little impact on poultry prices, but the government seeks to expand imports of poultry goods over possible price volatility, officials said Friday. The assessment came as South Korea has reported a series of AI cases since confirming the first infection on Dec. 3 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has confirmed a highly pathogenic avian influenza (AI) virus in cat food used at a Seoul animal shelter that earlier reported flu cases among cats, the agriculture ministry said Friday. Earlier this week, the H5 AI strain was found in two kinds of cat food — Balanced [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s agriculture ministry said Wednesday it has detected an H5 avian influenza (AI) strain in cat food, and ordered its manufacturer to recall and destroy the affected products. Last month, a cat living at a shelter in Seoul’s Gwanak district died after showing respiratory symptoms, and it was [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Black cranes, an internationally protected species, are flying between South Korea and Japan due to an infectious disease. The Ministry of Environment said that 3,600 black cranes were observed in a three-day survey of some 200 habitats for migratory birds across the country from Nov. 11-13. Of them, 3,400 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The agriculture ministry said Sunday it has expanded the scope of poultry culling at farms infected with a highly pathogenic avian influenza in some areas of South Jeolla Province. The move came as a total of 19 cases have been reported in the province since Nov. 16, when a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A newly developed molecular sensor can quickly diagnose the infection of avian influenza. A joint research team from Korea University and Seoul National University announced Thursday that it had developed EliF, a molecular sensor that glows only in cells infected with the bird flu. Previously, a polymerase chain reaction [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s agricultural ministry said Thursday it will ease some preventive measures against avian influenza and instead provide more incentives to chicken farms. Under the plan, the ministry will spare birds from poultry farms that have strictly followed preventive measures in case of another outbreak of the highly contagious [...]
HWASEONG, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A farm that eventually slaughtered its chickens after having resisted the government’s mass cull order resulting from the occurrence of highly pathogenic bird flu at a neighboring farm has finally brought in new chicks and resumed operations. Sanan Village Farm, located in Hwaseong, GyeonggI Province, said Tuesday that it [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Prices of eggs in South Korea may jump by up to 68 percent in the March-May period this year, as the spreading avian influenza is expected to further exacerbate the supply shortage, a state-funded think tank said Sunday. In the three-month period, the supply price of a large-size 10-egg [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has been rolling out intense measures to prevent the spread of the highly pathogenic bird flu, but local farmers have cried foul over what they claim are too excessive. To curb the spread of the virus, the country destroys all birds within a 3-kilometer radius of infected [...]