WATT Poultry In the Asia-Pacific region, recent outbreaks of HPAI in poultry are reported in Cambodia, the Philippines and South Korea. During the latter half of May, two highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreaks affecting village poultry were confirmed by the animal health authority in Cambodia.
Presence of the H5N1 virus serotype was confirmed in a flock of around 400 poultry in the middle of the month, according to the first recent official notification to the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH). At the end of May, there was a second outbreak in a similar poultry flock comprising 246 birds. Both occurred in the central-southern province of Kampong Speu.