Seoul, Jan 6
South Korea has confirmed its 20th case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (AI) for this winter season at an egg farm in Gyeonggi Province, authorities said on Monday.
The city government noted that the latest case was reported from a layer poultry farm in Yeoju, about 65 kilometers east of Seoul on Saturday, news agency reported.
It marks the 20th highly pathogenic AI case reported across the country in the winter season.
Authorities have contained the area and culled some 104,000 chickens raised at the farm, as well as another 52,000 chicks at a broiler farm nearby as part of preventative measures.
The last such case, detected on December 31, was confirmed from an egg farm in the country's central region of North Chungcheong Province.
It was detected at a layer hen farm in Eumseong county, about 90 kilometers southeast of Seoul, the authorities had said.
The owner of the farm made the initial report on an increase in deaths among the livestock.