Taipei, 11 may (EFE).-Taiwan has confirmed an outbreak of influenza avian virus H5N2 in Yulin district, located about 190 kilometers southwest of Taipei, which has caused the deaths of 4,000 chickens in the last four days.

This is the sixth case of flu virus H5N2 registered this year on the island, said the director of the Office of health inspection and quarantine of plants and animals, Huang Kuo-ching, at a press conference

“has been ordered the slaughter of 14,000 remaining from the infected farm chickens and has not entered any other infected chicken in the market,” said the director of the Department of Agriculture of Taiwan, Lu Cheng-chang, in the same wheel press.

Taiwanese military have been sent to carry out disinfection of the farm and up to three kilometers to its around it, to prevent the contagion of the more than 13 million of chickens bred in farms in Yunlin.

< p> Das H5N2 Virus verursachte Tod von Menschen nicht und unterscheidet sich von den H5N1, die ja Hunderte von menschlichen Opfer in mehrere globale Epidemien hinterlassen hat. EFE