The new variant of H5N2 bird flu found on farm goose and duck farms in Yunlin, Pingtung, Taiwan.
According to the Council of Agriculture (COA) Animal Health Research Institute, has never appeared another form of the H5N2 virus earlier in Taiwan or elsewhere.
From health authorities report, first Taiwan recorded the occurrence of cases of avian influenza H5N8 highly pathogenic, found in goose farm in Chiayi County.
Indeed, at this time the virus can still be overcome by cooking eggs and poultry using hot water up to 70 degrees Celsius or more.
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On January 8, 2015, on a farm operator ducks and geese on 23 farms in Chiayi, Pingtung, Yunlin, and Tainan have sent the samples to be tested in the COA Animal Health Research Institute.
Once matched with strains were detected in South Korea in 2014, the COA said that the H5N8 avian flu virus is very well suited.
While the H5N2 virus found in two locations, continued COA, unlike previous H5N2 variant.
AsiaOne launch, Monday (01/12/2015), COA explained, when viewed from the genome sequence, H5 similar to the case in South Korea, while N2 is most similar to the virus were reported in Jilin province of China in 2011.
