Claim: Philippines to cull 200,000 fowl after bird flu outbreak.
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title: 2017 Central Luzon H5N6 outbreak
text: where the avian flu originated had a practice of setting up quails above ducks. The outbreak caused a drop of the farm gate prices of poultry. The prices dropped to to per kilogram ( to per pound) from the average price of per kilogram ( per pound). The poultry industry has estimated that it suffered a loss per day. As of August 23, 2017, the outbreak already costed the country's poultry industry . Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura (SINAG), an agriculture group, called for the Department of Agriculture's response to the incident to be more discreet saying that their handling of

title: 2017 Central Luzon H5N6 outbreak
text: will be quarantined for 21 days. The quarantine zone was extended as far as and was also imposed in Jaen and San Isidro, Nueva Ecija. This zone was reduced back to 1 kilometer on August 31, 2017. 500 soldiers has been mobilized to aid the culling efforts. By August 25, more than 470 thousand chickens, ducks, and quails has been culled. By September 2017, more than 600 thousand birds have been culled. Through a circular dated on August 11, 2017, the Department of Agriculture imposed a temporary ban against transporting birds and poultry products from Pampanga to other parts of

title: 2017 Central Luzon H5N6 outbreak
text: the bird flu situation in the country was raised to stage 2 following the confirmation of the outbreak which started in Pampanga. A quarantine zone was imposed centering Barangay San Carlos of San Luis which covered an area . The quarantine radius covers five barangays in San Luis, Mexico and Santa Ana towns. Within the quarantine zone a total of 200 thousand birds wild or domesticated will be culled during a three-day period. The corpses will be buried in a highly elevated place. Animals within the designated area will be quarantined for 90 days while those in the surrounding area

title: 2017 Central Luzon H5N6 outbreak
text: by farms in the last week of April 2017. The first farm to be affected by the disease was reportedly a quail farm. The Department of Agriculture (DA) confirmed the avian influenza outbreak on August 11, 2017 and a state of calamity was declared by the provincial government of Pampanga on the same day. By that time a total of 116,000 birds in farms has been identified to have the virus with 37,000 birds already dead due to the disease. On August 18, 2017, Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol confirmed occurrence of bird flu in the towns of Jaen and San

title: Swine influenza
text: officers investigated the outbreak of swine flu in Nueva Ecija and central Luzon, Philippines. The mortality rate is less than 10% for swine flu, unless there are complications like hog cholera. On July 27, 2007, the Philippine National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS) raised a hog cholera "red alert" warning over Metro Manila and five regions of Luzon after the disease spread to backyard pig farms in Bulacan and Pampanga, even if these tested negative for the swine flu virus. Since November 2009, 14 deaths as a result of swine flu in Northern Ireland have been reported. The majority of the

title: Avian influenza
text: point and beyond that a 5 km radius where all fowl was to be vaccinated. This culling method was indiscriminate as a large proportion of the poultry inside these areas were small backyard flocks which did not travel great enough distances to carry infection to adjacent villages without human effort and may have not been infected at all. Between 2004 and 2005, over 100 million chickens were culled in Asia to contain H5N1. The risk of mass culling of birds and the resulting economic impact led farmers who were reluctant to report sick poultry. The culls often preempted actual lab

title: 2017 Central Luzon H5N6 outbreak
text: Isidro in Nueva Ecija. After the strain of the bird flu was confirmed to be H5N6 which can be transmitted to humans, it was reported on August 25, that Department of Health is monitoring 34 farm workers in Nueva Ecija and Pampanga as suspected human cases of the disease. Agriculture Secretary Piñol declared the outbreak officially over on September 2, 2017 and eased quarantine measures. The strain of the avian influenza virus is not of the H5N1 strain according to the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine which conducted testings on samples of the virus from infected birds. The samples were

title: 2017 Central Luzon H5N6 outbreak
text: disease. The Department of Agriculture declared that they were able to "effectively contain" the outbreak. The government body will conduct a post-crisis analysis with poultry stakeholders where the DA will suggest greater bio-security measure in farms in the country. Agriculture Secretary Piñol said that many of the farms he visited in Pampanga lacked "basic bio-security facilities, like a simple footbath and vehicle disinfection facility" and a "disposal area for dead fowls or wastes within the farm area". 2017 Central Luzon H5N6 outbreak From April to September 2017 in the Philippines, an outbreak of H5N6 avian influenza or bird flu affected

title: 2017 Central Luzon H5N6 outbreak
text: Luzon as well as banned the transfer of live poultry and poultry products from Luzon to Visayas and Mindanao to prevent the spread of the disease. After consulting with biosecurity experts, the ban was partially lifted by August 23 but the transport of poultry from within the quarantine areas centered on affected towns in Pampanga and Nueva Ecija remains. It is yet to be determined how avian influenza was successfully transmitted to the Philippines. The Department of Agriculture either suspects that the virus was transmitted by migratory birds or through the smuggling of Peking Ducks through Subic Port. The farm

title: 2017 Central Luzon H5N6 outbreak
text: 2017 Central Luzon H5N6 outbreak From April to September 2017 in the Philippines, an outbreak of H5N6 avian influenza or bird flu affected poultry in at least three towns in Central Luzon; San Luis in Pampanga and Jaen and San Isidro in Nueva Ecija. The occurrence is the first avian flu outbreak recorded in the Philippines. While the occurrence of the disease was reported as early as April 2017, it was only on August 11, 2017 that the avian flu was confirmed. The outbreak was officially declared over in September 2017. Occurrence of avian influenza in Pampanga was first reported

title: 2008 H5N1 outbreak in West Bengal
text: party leaders resisted culling operations.. Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar had slammed the Communist Party of India (Marxist) government for not reporting the bird flu epidemic early on. Shortage of staff for culling operation is one of the other reasons. At least eleven districts of West Bengal, including Birbhum, Nadia, Murshidabad, Burdwan, Hooghly, Cooch Behar, Malda, Bankura, Purulia, Howrah, West Midnapore, South 24 Parganas and South Dinajpur are affected by bird flu. 2008 H5N1 outbreak in West Bengal The 2008 bird flu outbreak in West Bengal is an occurrence of avian influenza in West Bengal, India that began on January 16,

title: Japan foot-and-mouth outbreak
text: of it on 30 April 2010. Total infected cases: 131. Total animals to be slaughtered: 118,164. Uncompleted animals: approximately 60,000. On May 19, the government's FMD Control Response Department announced a "basic countermeasure policy" that includes vaccination and slaughtering all livestock within a 10 km radius of major affected areas. It was predicted that over 300,000 of cattle and swine would be culled. The Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Yasukazu Hamada, Deputy Chairman of Diet Affairs Committee, revealed that the AFF Minister Akamatsu had left Japan regardless of his suggestion to postpone the overseas trip in order to plan for countermeasures

title: Erbolat Dossaev
text: 18 September 2006, Dossaev announced a plan to spend the equivalent of US$53 million from 2006 to 2010 to fight HIV and AIDS. Dossaev announced on 20 March 2006 that tests had confirmed that a dead swan found in Mangghystau Province, on Kazakhstan's Caspian Sea coast, had bird flu. Several areas in northern Kazakhstan were quarantined in 2005 when the H5N1 bird flu strain was found. Thousands of domestic fowl were culled when bird was detected in Kazakhstan in August. Asylbek Kozhimuratov, the Kazakh agriculture minister, said that all domestic poultry in Mangghystau had been vaccinated. Fowl in Atyrau province,

title: Influenza A virus subtype H5N8
text: since the first outbreak of avian flu was reported at a farm on Nov. 18. Japan has reported five outbreaks since the end of November with 800,000 chickens having been culled in one month. In early January 2017, France culled about 800,000 birds to prevent the spread of H5N8. In Nigeria, it was reported that the virus affected 3.5 million birds. The virus was also detected in Spain and Slovenia. KAMPALA Jan 15 (Reuters) - Uganda's ministry for agriculture said on Sunday it had detected bird flu in two locations, one affecting wild birds and another hitting domestic birds Two

title: Avian influenza
text: testing for H5N1 as avian flu policy justified sacrificing poultry as a safeguard against HPAI spread. In response to these policies, farmers in Vietnam between 2003 and 2004 became more and more unwilling to surrender apparently healthy birds to authorities and stole poultry destined for culls as it stripped poultry of their biosocial and economic worth. By the end of 2005, the government implemented a new policy that targeted high-risk flock in the immediate vicinity of infected farms and instituted voluntary culling with compensation in the case of a local outbreak. Not only did culling result in severe economic impacts

title: 2007 Central Luzon hog cholera outbreak
text: in Bulacan and Pampanga were affected. Furthermore, the National Meat Inspection Service strictly monitored the movement of hogs and newly slaughtered meat. The final count for Bulacan was pegged at 2,823 affected hogs, representing a minimal 0.29% of the total hog population of over one million in Bulacan, in 43 barangays in 11 towns and one city. As a result of the outbreak, police checkpoints were put up on roads entering Metro Manila. A routine inspection seized 400 kilograms of "hot meat" at the town of Sta. Maria. Quezon City officials confiscated five tons of meat from the Balintawak public

title: 2007 Central Luzon hog cholera outbreak
text: virus in Central Luzon, containing quarantine policies to prevent further spread of the virus and information dissemination on proper hog hygiene. At the end of July, DA's Bureau of Animal Industry via a report of its officer-in-charge Davinio Catbagan to DA secretary Arthur Yap said "hog cholera, swine flu and the pseudo-rabies virus that hit some farms have now been placed under control through measures the Department of Agriculture immediately put in place." The DA released 5,000 doses of hog cholera vaccine in the province to curtail the outbreak. In its estimate, the DA said only 4,000 sows, 2,000 each

title: Avian influenza
text: killed. In Vietnam alone, over 50 million domestic birds were killed due to HPAI infection and control attempts. A 2005 report by the FAO totaled economic losses in South East Asia around US$10 billion. This had the greatest impact on small scale commercial and backyard producers relative to total assets compared to industrial chains which primarily experience temporary decreases in exports and loss of consumer confidence. Some governments did provide compensation for culled poultry, it was often far below market value (close to 30% of market value in Vietnam), while others such as Cambodia provide no compensation to farmers at

title: 2007 Central Luzon hog cholera outbreak
text: market during a surprise inspection. 2007 Central Luzon hog cholera outbreak An outbreak of classical swine fever (hog cholera) in the Philippine region of Central Luzon, particularly the provinces of Pampanga and Bulacan occurred in mid-2007, the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) confirmed. Bulacan, which lies immediately north of Metro Manila is the center of hog raising in the Philippines. Backyard and commercial farms, about 300 in number, with 80% of those commercial, are estimated to have more than a million sows.<ref name="PDI_7/26">Hog cholera reported in Bulacan By Carmela Reyes, the Philippine Daily Inquirer. 05:58pm 26 July 2007</ref> The outbreak

title: 2009 flu pandemic in the Philippines
text: DOH shifted into policy of mitigation where patients with symptoms anomaly exhibiting swine flu will just go see a doctor. Dr. Lyndon Lee Suy, head of the Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases Program of the Department of Health (DOH), said that the Philippine government, on July 5, still cannot afford to buy mass vaccine, which is estimated to cost PhP 1,000 per dosage. He said that the elderly, among the high-risk group in the Philippines, has a population of around 3.6 million, and vaccination among them requires PhP 3.6 billion (which is a tentative equivalent for the health department's three-year