Avian Influenza H5N6 -- South Korea
Bird flu was recently detected on farms near Seoul; just weeks before the 2018 Winter Olympics will take place in South Korea.
On [Sat 27 Jan 2018], South Korea's Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced that it had discovered a highly pathogenic strain of the H5N6 avian influenza near a chicken farm in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi, about 25 mi [approx. 40 km] south of Seoul. Another pathogenic strain of the same virus was also recently detected in another chicken farm in Pyeongtaek,
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?5597048&promed&0
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