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Last November and December, the Saudi's were battling a major outbreak of bird flu among poultry in their country. Some reports had them culling more than 3 million birds over a matter of a couple of weeks.
For the past five or six weeks, however, Saudi Arabia has slipped from the headlines.
Today we learn of a new outbreak, and the culling of 158,000 birds. This report from Reuters.
Birds culled in Saudi as new bird flu case found
Tue 29 Jan 2008, 14:39 GMT
RIYADH, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Saudi authorities have culled nearly 160,000 birds after a new case of the deadly strain of bird flu was found on a farm outside Riyadh, state media said on Tuesday.
The Saudi Press Agency said 158,000 birds were exterminated at al-Kharj, 150 km (94 miles) south of the capital, after the H5N1 strain of bird flu was found there.
Authorities killed thousands of birds in al-Kharj and other sites near Riyadh in November, as inspection teams combed farms and markets around the city of about 4 million people.
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