korea confirm just now bird flu case

South Korea Confirms New Case of Bird Flu
Mon 22 March, 2004 00:38

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's agriculture ministry confirmed on Monday the first case of bird flu in the country for more than one month.

The outbreak uncovered at the weekend at a chicken farm in Kyonggi province was the first case since February 5 and 16,000 poultry were destroyed on Sunday, a ministry official said.

A further 400,000 poultry in the affected area would also be destroyed, the official added. So far nearly five million poultry have been destroyed in South Korea since an outbreak of the disease late last year.