# H5N6 sickens Chinese man, strikes duck farm in South Korea | CIDRAP

> A 33-year-old man in Guangxi, China, was hospitalized in critical condition with H5N6 after likely contact with live poultry. South Korea reported an H5N8 outbreak at a commercial duck farm and detected HPAI in wild bird environmental samples.

- Date: 2017-11-20 · published 2017-11-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: disease · region South Korea · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/67852-h5n6-sickens-chinese-man-strikes-duck-farm-in-south-korea-cidrap
- Commodities: [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md)

## Why it matters

Outbreaks at Korean duck farms and surveillance detections point to continued poultry disease pressure in Asia, which can lead to culls and trade restrictions that support poultry prices.

## Read by commodity

- CHICKEN: bullish ▲

## Sources

- cidrap.umn.edu: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/h5n6-sickens-chinese-man-strikes-duck-farm-south-korea

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