SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea stepped up the culling of poultry and enforced strict quarantine measures Saturday to stop the country's first outbreak of bird flu in three years from spreading, officials said.
Some 21,000 ducks on a poultry farm in Gochang in North Jeolla Province - 300 kilometres (187 miles) southwest of Seoul - were culled after avian influenza was found there, the agriculture ministry said.
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