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SEOUL, June 7 (Yonhap) -- South Korean quarantine officials culled nearly 700 birds Wednesday on the country's southern resort island of Jeju in the latest attempt to contain the spread of avian influenza (AI).
Quarantine workers gassed a total of 695 chickens and ducks from three poultry farms and packed them in plastic bags with carbon dioxide before burying them in fields near the chicken and duck farms, Kim Ik-chan, an official handling the issue at the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, spoke by phone from Jeju.
The move highlighted South Korea's desperate efforts to try to block the spread of a highly pathogenic strain of H5N8 that hit the resort island on Friday.
Continued: http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2017/06/07/0200000000AEN20170607005353320.html
Quarantine workers gassed a total of 695 chickens and ducks from three poultry farms and packed them in plastic bags with carbon dioxide before burying them in fields near the chicken and duck farms, Kim Ik-chan, an official handling the issue at the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, spoke by phone from Jeju.
The move highlighted South Korea's desperate efforts to try to block the spread of a highly pathogenic strain of H5N8 that hit the resort island on Friday.
Continued: http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2017/06/07/0200000000AEN20170607005353320.html
