South Korea recently confirmed a highly pathogenic avian influenza case in a wild bird for the first time in seven months. This has further raised concerns over a possible transmission to poultry farms, confirmed the Agriculture Ministry on Tuesday.
The most recent case was found in the main city of Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, which denotes the primary avian flu case since March 30 this year, as per the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.
The Ministry raised the warning to the most significant level of red and carried out intensive quarantine and security measures, for example, cordoning off a sweep of 500 meters from where contaminated cases were found and limiting development to and from adjacent ranches for 21 days, reports Yonhap News Agency.
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“This is the main confirmed case this season. It is important to completely maintain hostility to infection gauges,” a service official said. Exceptionally pathogenic avian flu can cause serious ailment and even passing in poultry.
This comes after South Korea on Friday agreed with the pharma organization Pfizer to buy its antiviral pills for treating COVID-19 once supported by controllers.
Pfizer’s antiviral pill, known as PF-07321332, hasn’t been available to be purchased in the United States, says Roma Nair, a representative for the organization. The United States has, be that as it may, consented to purchase 1.7 million molnupiravir courses from the pharma organization Merck. The pills created by Merck and Pfizer could be a defining moment in the battle against the Covid on the grounds that they don’t need a medical clinic visit and are sensibly economical contrasted and the current neutralizer therapies. The two drugs are intended to prevent infections from recreating.
South Korea got 70,000 pills of Pfizer’s pill, the wellbeing service said in an assertion on Friday.
