(MEATPOULTRY.com, April 22, 2008)
by Bryan Salvage
SEOUL ― South Korea plans to slaughter at least 5.32 million birds to contain its latest outbreak of avian influenza. This is the greatest number of poultry ever killed in the country in an attempt to quell the disease's spread, according to The Associated Press.
Since the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu broke out earlier this month for the first time in more than a year, South Korea has killed 4.85 million birds, Agriculture Ministry official Jin Pil-sik said on Monday. By today, another 477,000 chickens were to be slaughtered near the latest outbreak site.
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