Bird Flu Monitor > Fresh outbreaks in Korea and Vietnam call for major intervention
[Flu Patrol] With a fourth outbreak of H5N1-caused bird flu reported in South Chungchong Province, South Korea on December 21, the Korean government called for the culling of more than 23,000 poultry on top of already 1.13 million poultry slaughtered. The agriculture ministry also destroyed 50,000 eggs and quarantined more than 1.65 million chichens and ducks within a 10 kilometer radius of the outbreak.
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[Superstrain.blogspot.com] SuperStrain Blog-Source: South Korea: South Korea had by Monday completed culling 75,500 poultry within a 500 metre (1,640-ft) radius of the farm in North Cholla province about 170 km (100 miles) south from Seoul. It plans to destroy a remaining 160,500 birds in the same area by Thursday."
[Time.blogs.com] TIME.com: The TIME Global Health Blog - H5N1 Returns to Korea: It's easy to forget, but the first country to report avian cases of H5N1 avian flu during the serious winter 2003 outbreak was not Vietnam or China or Thailand, but modern South Korea. Unlike many of their regional neighbors, who hid or ignored evidence of the disease, the South Koreans were quick to report the outbreak to international health authorities and implement strict control procedures.
[Prophecyheadlines.com] » Blog Archive » South Korea Confirms Outbreak Of H5N1: SEOUL, Nov 25 (Reuters) - South Korea said on Saturday a bird flu outbreak at a poultry farm was caused by the highly virulent H5N1 strain of the virus, in the country’s first case for three years of the infection that can kill humans. The Agriculture Ministry said earlier this week it suspected bird flu had killed 6,000 chickens at a farm in the southwest of the country that lies on a path for migratory birds.
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