Seoul, 13 mar (EFE).-the South Korea today confirmed the presence in a local farm of an outbreak of influenza avian H9N2, a mildly pathogenic strain of the virus, less harmful both for birds to humans which known as H5N1.
Only the affected farm will be put in quarantine and subjected to surveillance, told the local agency Yonhap News an official of the Ministry of food, agriculture, forests and fisheries South Korean, who confirmed that contagion will not require the culling of infected.
The outbreak was detected Sunday on a farm in poultry in the province of South Chungcheong, to the West of the country, where around 100 of a total of 450 chickens showed symptoms of influenza avian and 40 of them died.
After an initial test, which confirmed results positive for influenza virus to avian in six of ten chickens examined on the farm, a more thorough investigation carried out by the Ministry specified that the birds are infected with the H9N2, a variety of slightly pathogenic strain.
The case of influenza avian South Chungcheong farm is the first in the Asian country since May 16 last year.
In 2011 an outbreak of the highly pathogenic strain of the virus of influenza avian known as H5N1 forced to sacrifice more than three million birds in South Korea.
In other countries of the region of Asia and the Pacific this disease, in its more aggressive variants, has come to infect humans and has caused the deaths of two people in China, two in Viet Nam and five in Indonesia in so far this year, according to official data. EFE
