South Korea culls over 6 percent of poultry to curb bird flu

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South Korea culls over 6 percent of poultry to curb bird flu

South Korea has culled over 6 percent of poultry in the country to curb a bird flu outbreak that has hit farms and migratory birds nationwide, government officials said on Friday. No human infection has been reported, but a dog tested positive for bird flu antibodies, suggesting it had been exposed to the disease without being infected, the ministry said in a statement. Asia's fourth-largest economy has had four bird flu outbreaks in the past 10 years, without any cases of human infection reported. South Korea's first case of H5N8 bird flu - different from the strain that has caused human deaths elsewhere in Asia - was found on January 17 at a duck farm in North Jeolla province, around 300 km (186 miles) southwest of Seoul.

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