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South Korea raises bird flu alert as three more cases found at poultry farms

South Korean health officials bury chickens at a poultry farm where the highly pathogenic H5N6 bird flu virus broke out in Haenam, South Korea, November 17, 2016.Yonhap/via REUTERSSEOUL South Korea raised the country's bird flu alert status on Wednesday to its second-highest level following three more outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5N6 strain after the first cases were confirmed last week.The new bird flu outbreaks were discovered at two duck farms in the central and southwestern regions of the country, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Hamburg dogs must be kept on leashes, as bird flu spreads

Photo: DPA.DPA/The Local · 23 Nov 2016, 11:14Published: 23 Nov 2016 11:14 GMT+01:00The northern city-state of Hamburg is now requiring all dogs to be kept on leashes for fears of the continued spread of bird flu.Hamburg implemented the new rule on Sunday as the H5N8 virus spreads across the country, for fear that dogs could spread the virus further if they come into contact with a dead bird.
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Korea reports 2 additional highly pathogenic bird flu cases

South Korea said it has confirmed the outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu cases at two poultry farms on Tuesday, increasing the number of confirmed H5N6 avian influenza (AI) virus cases in the nation to four.The Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Rural Affairs said the H5N6 AI virus was discovered at a duck farm in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, and at another duck farm in Muan, South Jeolla Province.The veterinary authorities said some 22,000 ducks have been culled in Muan, 385 kilometers south of Seoul.
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S. Korea intensifies quarantine measures against bird flu

2016/11/23 16:00SEJONG, Nov. 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea intensified its watch against avian influenza (AI) Wednesday as the animal disease seems to be spreading rapidly throughout the nation, the government said.Four AI cases have been confirmed in the country since Nov. 16 when the first outbreak was reported at a chicken farm in Haenam, 423 kilometers south of Seoul.Two suspected cases in the central region of Gyeonggi Province and one other have been under close examination, with three more suspected infections from wild birds around the western coastal areas where large wintering sites for migratory birds are located.
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Suspect low-risk bird flu case found in big German poultry area

HAMBURG German officials are preparing to cull around 16,000 turkeys after a first suspected farm-based case of low-risk H5 bird flu was discovered in Lower Saxony, one of Europe's biggest poultry-producing regions, authorities said on Wednesday.Tests will now be carried out to establish whether the more threatening H5N8 strain is present, said the state agriculture ministry in Lower Saxony, whose farms have more than 35 million chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese.Israel and a series of European countries have found cases of H5N8 bird flu in the past few weeks and some have ordered that poultry flocks be kept indoors to stop the disease spreading.
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