Korea’s bird flu alert raised
December 5th, 2006
Following two more outbreaks by the highly pathogenic virus H5N1, Korea’s government has raised the alert level to “precaution”, from the previous level of “attention”. The discovery was made at poultry farms in the North Jeolla Province. The decision has been made to cull all the chickens and ducks on a 3 km radius around the two farms, in an attempt to stop the spread of the disease. It is believed that around 800,000 poultry is raised in that area. The country killed 5.3 million birds in 2003, trying to contain the last known outbreak of avian influenza.