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Since November 2006, Korea has been battling outbreaks in poultry farms south of Seoul, their Capital city. No country I am aware of has been as scrupulous in their attempts to cull, not only chickens, but anything within the culling zone that moves.
Once again proving how difficult it is to eradicate this disease, once it becomes entrenched in the surroundings.
This from the Australian.
South Korea confirms bird flu case
- February 10, 2007
SOUTH Korea has confirmed a sixth case of bird flu despite the culling of poultry after earlier cases, officials said today, raising concerns that quarantine measures had failed to control the outbreak.
The latest case occurred at a poultry farm in Ansong, Kyonggi Province, around 66 km south of the capital, Seoul, and about 24 km from Chonan, where the fifth case was found.
"We confirmed that a case at a farm in Ansong was highly pathogenic," an Agricultural Ministry official said.
Quarantine authorities plan to cull poultry within a 3-km radius of the infected farm, an official of Ansong said.
There were no reports suggesting human infection.
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