South Korea expands poultry cull on bird flu fears

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South Korea expands poultry cull on bird flu fears

By Jane Chung SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea is expanding a poultry cull in a bid to contain the spread of bird flu that has been found on an increasing number of farms around the country and in migratory birds. The country's agriculture ministry said the H5N8 strain of bird flu had been detected on six poultry farms and that there had been 13 cases in migratory birds since the first outbreak earlier this month. No human infection has been reported, while the ministry is looking into four additional reports from poultry farms and more than 50 other suspected cases in migratory birds, it said in a statement on Monday. Asia's fourth-largest economy has had four bird flu outbreaks in the past 10 years, without any cases of human infection reported.

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