Avian Influenza H5N8 -- South Korea
South Korea has detected bird flu in ducks on a poultry farm near Seoul, an agriculture ministry official told Reuters today [28 Mar 2016], the 1st discovery in 4 months and a month after the country regained its bird flu-free status. The case involved a strain known as H5N8, the same type of influenza that occurred last November [2015]. All 11 604 ducks at the infected farm in the city of Icheon [Gyeonggi province], 80 km [about 50 mi] east of Seoul have been slaughtered, the official
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