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[세종=이데일리 원다연 기자] The government will end the special quarantine measures against avian influenza (AI) due to the risk of migratory birds on the 28th.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced on the day that “the number of migratory birds has decreased due to the full-fledged northward relocation of migratory birds, and the detection of highly pathogenic AI antigens has decreased significantly in recent years. As a result, the period of AI special quarantine measures due to the risk of migratory birds has been ended.”
The number of migratory birds increased from 940,000 in November to 1.57 million in December, and continued to decrease to 470,000 this month. The average number of highly pathogenic AI antigens detected per day fell from 3.48 in January this year to 1.96 in February, down from 0.5 cases until last week this month to 0.2 cases from the 13th to the present.
However, as highly pathogenic AI occurs intermittently in poultry farms, the policy is to maintain reinforced quarantine measures against vulnerable factors.
The government mobilizes quarantine vehicles to intensively disinfect the antigen detection points of migratory birds, native chicken farms and aprons, and access roads to laying hens, breeders, and duck farms three times a week.
In addition, the nationwide campaign to eradicate viruses in poultry farms will be extended, and the three-step disinfection method: cleaning and disinfecting the inside of the farm, changing boots and hand disinfection when entering the livestock house, and daily disinfection inside the livestock house will be intensively guided, and the actual status check will be continued. Plan.
We maintain a reinforced inspection system for poultry and the environment to detect infected individuals early, while also maintaining quarantine measures to block circulatory infection and horizontal transmission between farms in vulnerable livestock such as laying hens, ducks, and native chickens.
An official from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food said, “As the risk from residual virus continues to exist, we ask that poultry farms and related facilities continue to meticulously follow the rules of disinfection and quarantine.”