{"id":89112,"date":"2017-02-12T20:41:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T01:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=89112"},"modified":"2017-02-12T20:41:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T01:41:59","slug":"taiwan-reports-more-h5n6-bird-flu-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/12\/taiwan-reports-more-h5n6-bird-flu-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan reports more H5N6 bird flu cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_89113\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89113\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/362406725_f6ac0313ba_b-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89113\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/362406725_f6ac0313ba_b-1.jpg\" alt=\"Taiwan has reported three H5N6 bird flu cases this week, and authorities are reinforcing measures to prevent further infections. (Photo:Laughlin Elkind\/ Flickr)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/362406725_f6ac0313ba_b-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/362406725_f6ac0313ba_b-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/362406725_f6ac0313ba_b-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89113\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taiwan has reported three H5N6 bird flu cases this week, and authorities are reinforcing measures to prevent further infections. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wurzle\">Laughlin Elkind\/ Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TAIPEI \u2013Taiwan has reported three H5N6 bird flu cases this week, and authorities are reinforcing measures to prevent further infections.<\/p>\n<p>The latest case was reported Sunday when turkeys from a farm in Tainan city were confirmed as infected with the virus, according to Taiwan&#8217;s animal and plant inspection authority.<\/p>\n<p>More than 3,000 turkeys on the farm died in an unusually short space of time before the authority conducted tests to confirm the virus.<\/p>\n<p>The first H5N6 case was confirmed Feb. 5 in a dead goose found on a farm road in eastern Hualien county. On Feb. 11, samples from 3,789 slaughtered ducks, from a farm near where the gosling was found, also tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n<p>The authority said that the virus&#8217; DNA sequence was 99 percent the same as a similar virus found in the Republic of Korea and Japan, where more than 35 million fowl have been culled in three months.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan is a common destination for migrating birds to spend the winter. Its farms have reported 13 avian flu cases this year, though mainly caused by the H5N2 or H5N8 virus.<\/p>\n<p>The island has urged farms to reinforce safety checks and speedily report the unusual death of animals, threatening heavy fines for farms that attempt to cover-up any outbreaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAIPEI \u2013Taiwan has reported three H5N6 bird flu cases this week, and authorities are reinforcing measures to prevent further infections. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":89113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[15095,2439],"class_list":["post-89112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-bird-flu","tag-taiwan","mauthors-xinhua-via-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}