H5N1 Bird flu hits second farm - South Korea

Bird flu or Avian flu, also avian influenza, bird influenza, means flu from viruses adapted to birds, but is sometimes mistakenly used to refer to both other flu subsets such as H5N1 flu or the viruses that cause them such as H5N1.

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H5N1 Bird flu hits second farm - South Korea

Bird Flu :: H5N1 Bird flu hits second farm - South Korea

A second chicken farm in South Korea has been found to contain the highly-pathogenic bird flu virus H5N1. The outbreak occurred at a farm close to where a case was confirmed at the weekend.

Quarantine officials are carrying out the slaughter of massive poultry around the first infected farm in Iksan, about 250km (155 miles) south of Seoul.

(Published at www.spiritindia.com on Thursday, November 30, 2006)
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