Bird flu again in South Korea
May 14, 2008
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean officials said Monday they have destroyed all poultry in Seoul, the capital, to curb the out break of bird flu following a new outbreak of the disease in the city.
South Korean quarantine officials detained chickens to massacre at a poultry farm in Seoul. Quarantine officials destroyed 15,000 chickens, ducks, pheasants and turkeys raised in farms, restaurants, schools and homes in the capital, said Kim Yoon-kyu, a Seoul Metropolitan Government official.
The Seoul government said the slaughter was necessary to contain the disease. It said it will now focus on preventing live poultry from being brought into the capital.
The slaughter began Sunday night, hours after authorities recognized Seoul’s second outbreak of bird flu in less than a week. The slaughter did not affect parrots, parakeets and canaries as they have little chance of spreading the disease, Kim said.
On Monday night, government tests confirmed the latest spread in Seoul was caused by the deadly H5N1 virus, said Yoon Young-ku, a spokesman at the Agriculture Ministry.
Bird flu began sweeping southern parts of the country last month for the first time in more than a year, forcing the slaughter of about 6.8 million birds. Globally, at least 241 people have died from bird flu since 2003, according to the World Health Organization. Most human cases have been linked to contact with infected poultry.
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