South Korea confirms bird flu outbreak
https://dailydigitaldigest.blogspot.com/2014/01/south-korea-confirmed-bird-flu-outbreak.html
SEOUL,
South Korea – South Korean government declared that there is bird flu virus
outbreak after a poultry farm became positive with H5N1 avian flu.
Reports
said that the government ordered quarantine measures in 24 farms which bought
ducks from Gochang town in North Jeolla province.
In
a study conducted by experts, it showed that certain poultry in Gochang was
confirmed positive of H5N1 avian flu.
Due
to this incident, South Korea ordered culling 21,000 ducks from said farm while
in nearby area, farm owners culled about 60,000 ducks to avoid spread of the
virus.
The
said action is also the start of probing the deaths of at least 1,000 migratory
birds in Gochang.
The
government considered this incident as the first bird flu outbreak in the
country for three years.
The
last outbreak was in 2011 wherein more than six million poultry were culled
across South Korea. (AFP)
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