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(Yeongam=Yonhap News) Reporter Jo Geun-young = On the 10th, Yeongam County in Jeonnam Province announced that it has entered into full-scale response to prevent the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (AI). Highly pathogenic AI occurred at a meat duck farm located in Yeongam County the previous day. The county is following the quarantine guidelines and emergency action instructions from the Central AI Incident Management Headquarters, deploying an initial response team to the farm to implement measures such as access control, culling, and epidemiological investigation. All the farmed animals at the affected farm were urgently culled, and preventive culling was also carried out for 167,500 birds at two nearby farms. A complete movement restriction has been ordered for 103 poultry farms within a 10 km radius, and four control posts have been set up at the affected farm and on major roads. Disinfection vehicles have been deployed to intensively disinfect the surrounding areas and access routes of the farm to prevent further spread. Yeongam County Mayor Woo Seung-hee visited the AI quarantine control post on the same day to check the situation and urged the post staff to strictly control the entry and exit of vehicles and people inside and outside the farm. He also appealed to the farming households to comply with the AI prevention guidelines, including maintaining records of people and vehicles entering and exiting the farm, and thoroughly disinfecting livestock buildings and machinery. Yeongam County Mayor Woo Seung-hee emphasized, "All county residents, including farmers, should strictly follow the prevention guidelines to stop the spread of the disease and return to a clean area from avian influenza as soon as possible." chogy@yna.co.kr

(Seoul=Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Yoon-gu = The Central Disaster Management Headquarters for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) announced on the 9th that HPAI has occurred at a meat duck farm located in Yeongam County, South Jeolla Province. This is the 8th occurrence of HPAI this winter and the first at a meat duck farm. The headquarters has deployed an initial response team to the farm in accordance with quarantine guidelines and emergency action instructions, implementing measures such as access control, culling, and epidemiological investigation. In addition, to prevent the spread of HPAI, a 24-hour temporary suspension of movement has been ordered for all duck farms and related livestock facilities and livestock vehicles nationwide. The headquarters will conduct a joint detailed inspection of duck contract farms under the same group as the affected farm and all duck farms in South Jeolla Province until the 19th, and will strengthen the inspection rate at the slaughter stage of slaughterhouses affiliated with the group from 30% to 60%. The headquarters emphasized the importance of thoroughly adhering to basic quarantine rules, such as refraining from entering areas where migratory birds, which may come into contact with the virus, are present, disinfecting entry vehicles, and changing into dedicated boots before entering the barn.

In Ukraine, chicken eggs have significantly increased in price – according to official data, over the year from October 2024 to October 2025, their cost increased by 41.9%. This is reported by OBOZ.UA. However, on a monthly basis, according to the State Statistics Service, the price increase was not as severe. The price growth amounted to 11%. Since the beginning of November, the price of unpackaged eggs (category C1) increased by 0.03 UAH/piece (0.3 UAH/dozen). At the end of the month, large supermarket chains were selling them on average at 6.33 UAH/piece (63.33 UAH/dozen). The cost of packaged eggs has also increased. Specifically, a dozen of "Yasensvit" brand eggs are sold on average at 80 UAH, which is more than 7 UAH higher than the average price in October. Eggs of the "Kvochka" brand cost an average of 80.6 UAH/dozen. This is almost 7.5 UAH higher than the October price. At the same time, the head of the Poultry Farmers' Union of Ukraine, Serhiy Karpenko, expects a ...