Around the World: Republic of Korea

New bird flu case found

The Republic of Korea yesterday confirmed a new outbreak of bird flu at a duck farm in the southwest and said it was investigating two other possible cases days after reporting an outbreak at a nearby chicken farm.

Quarantine workers had started culling 6,500 ducks at the Jeongeup farm, where 6,000 poultry have died since last week, and destroyed thousands of birds which had already been sent elsewhere, the Farm Ministry said.