FIRST DOMESTIC CASE OF H5N6 IN HUALIEN|國內首度發現 H5N6高傳染力禽流病毒

The highly infectious strain of H5 N6 has appeared in Taiwan for the first time in Hualien's Yuli. The strain was found when the bodies of young geese were examined. As this virulent strain of the virus has been widespread in Japan and Korea, the Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine warned that it may have been spread by migrating birds. The H5N6 virus which has been widespread in Korea and Japan has now appeared in Taiwan. The Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine asked the Wildbird Society of Taipei to undertake monitoring of wildbirds. It found that a dead gosling in a lane from Hualien's Yuli to Sanmin was confirmed to have the H5 N6 virus. ==HUANG TZE-CHUNG Dir. Gen. BAPHIQ== It is present in Japan and Korea and especially Japan in wildbirds, 201 cases have been found so far, so they conclude that the earliest cases came to Taiwan with migrating birds, as it is a stop on the migratory route, so this is the most likely possibility. Initial analysis of samples taken from around a 3 kilometer radius of poultry farms has shown that part of the nucleic acid sequence has a high similarity, 99 percent, with the South Korea and Japan outbreak of the virus. ==HUANG SHIH-YI Head, Hualien County ACDC Office== We immediately took samples from within a one kilometer radius and sent them for testing, today we are expanding the area to three kilometers. BAPHIQ said that the first sample of H5 N6 showed that Taiwan's location as a migratory stop for birds meant that there was a high probability of new strains of virus entering. BAPHIQ had completed sampling and would wait for the report. If it was positive then they would decide what controls should be put on poultry farms. TRANSLATED BY：CLARE LEAR 在日本、韓國造成重大疫情的H5N6禽流感病毒，首度出現在台灣！防檢局委託北市野鳥學會執行候鳥禽流感監測時，在花蓮玉里通往三民的田間小路上、拾獲1隻死亡幼鵝，送往家畜衛生試驗所檢測後，在昨天下午確認為H5N6禽流感病毒。 ==防檢局長 黃㯖昌== 所以在韓國跟日本 尤其是日本 它在野鳥身上 就發現201起左右(例野鳥檢出) 所以他們共同判斷 認為最初感染源 應該是候鳥帶進來的 台灣的狀況 因為我們是候鳥遷徙的必經途徑 所以我想這個可能性 應該也是很大 初步分析，部分核酸序列跟韓國、日本爆發的病毒有99%極高的相似度，目前已針對拾獲地點周圍半徑3公里內的養禽場，進行採樣檢測管制。 ==花蓮動植物防疫所所長 黃詩伊== 第一時間我們有在 方圓半徑的一公里內 先做查場採樣 採樣了兩場送驗 今天我們就擴大採樣範圍 擴大到半徑三公里內 防檢局表示，首度驗出H5N6病毒，顯示台灣位在候鳥遷徙路徑，新亞型病毒入侵的風險甚高，目前動植物防疫所已經完成採樣，未來將等到抽驗報告出爐，確定是陰性後，才能決定是要解除管制或是進行銷毀。 記者 綜合報導