SEOUL — Korean authorities are on alert as the highly contagious bird flu quickly spreads across South Korea amid bird migration season.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said Tuesday that a H5N8 strain of highly pathogenic bird flu was found at a chicken egg farm in Yeoju, Gyeonggi Province, late Monday.
Officials began culling 193,000 chickens at the farm and 7,000 ducks at a nearby farm as a preventative measure.
Gyeonggi Province imposed a standstill order for all poultry farms in the region, prohibiting movement of all birds, related people and vehicles through early Wednesday.
On the same day, Kor…
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