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Part | Charger | kyj | date | 07/02/12 | |
A case of highly-virulent bird flu has been discovered in central South Korea, the first one since last month in a nearby city, government officials said Saturday.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry said in a statement that it detected highly-virulent avian influenza at a breeding farm in the city of Anseong, 77 kilometers south of Seoul.
Anseong is about 15 kilometers away from Cheonan, where a similar case took place in January and forced quarantine authorities to cull about 270,000 chickens and other poultry.
Ministry officials said they have dispatched a team of quarantine specialists to Anseong to support the containment efforts including destruction of over 1,000 chickens within 3 kilometers of the area where the bird flu was found.
All livestock within a 10 kilometer radius will be restricted from transfer, they said.
The discovery is the sixth since Nov. 25, when the first outbreak in three years was reported on a poultry farm in Iksan, about 230 kiloemeters south of Seoul.
The Geneva-based World Health Organization believes the virus can mutate into a highly virulent strain that can easily be transmitted among humans if left unchecked.
More than 250 people have been infected by the virus since 2003, of whom at least 161 are believed to have died from the disease, it said.
In 2003 and 2004, South Korea destroyed more than 5 million poultry to curb the spread of the disease. No South Korean has been reported to be infected.
quoted from www.korea.net
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