The highly pathogenic H5N6 avian flu has now spread in three cities in Taiwan, according to Taiwan's Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine. Although most of the 130,000 poultry culled in Taiwan since earlier this month were afflicted with H5N2 and H5N8 strains of the bird flu, this H5N6 strain is spreading fast across Taiwanese poultry farms. Taiwan reported its first imported human case of bird flu in a 69-year-old Taiwanese man the start of this year.
The highly pathogenic H5N6 avian flu has now spread in three cities in Taiwan, according to Taiwan's Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine. Although most of the 130,000 poultry culled in Taiwan since the start of this year were afflicted with H5N2 and H5N8 strains of the bird flu, this H5N6 strain is spreading fast across Taiwanese poultry farms. Taiwan reported its first imported human case of bird flu in a 69-year-old Taiwanese man earlier this month.