Migratory birds spreading avian flu?
Avian influenza in Japan, South Korea match / Officials believe that migratory ducks could have carried the virus in Korea. The bird flu virus detected in South Korea on Thursday confirmed genetically almost identical to the cases found in Japan, indicating that the disease is spread by migratory birds, according to an analysis by the National Institutes of Health Animal (Japan). The Institute of Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture (Japan) said that more than 99 percent of the genetic sequences of each adapted virus.Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry (Japan) said it was likely that the recent cases of wild birds migrating from South Korea to Japan have been affected because of bird flu have been caused in the western Japan is associated with time coincided with outbreaks
in South Korea. The analysis is the first time a relationship between a strain of avian influenza discovered in Japan and another country has been confirmed. He is also the first data point to a likely route of contamination. From mid-March, a sample of the virus causing bird flu in South Korea to visit the Institute published an analysis of the same against the virus detected in samples from poultry farm in Yamaguchi, Oita and Kyoto prefectures.Mid-December, avian influenza in the central and southern parts of South Korea were established after H5N1 was discovered on a poultry farm in the country. In January, a case was confirmed in a poultry farm in Yamaguchi prefecture, which was followed by similar discoveries in Oita and Kyoto prefectures. Samples taken from areas
where avian influenza has been detected has been identified as H5N1 taken, and all were almost identical genetically. One expert said that before the publication of the results: the probability that a virus has spread to the three prefectures of a place of origin.There is also a possibility that migratory birds like ducks, the virus to birds, then transfer chicken flocks infected poultry.Japanese government to continue
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