Officials cull 20,060 chickens in Taiwan following detection of bird flu
Posted On: Oct. 19, 2015 12:00 AM CSTTaiwan's Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine said that officials have culled 20,060 chickens at a farm in the country's Changhua city following detection of H5N2 strain of avian flu virus, reported The China Post.
About 495 chickens died at the farm in less than a week.
The chickens were culled after the infection was confirmed.
The Centers for Disease Control in Taiwan said that the current variation of the H5N2 virus is spread mainly among poultry and is highly pathogenic.