SEOUL: South Korea confirmed yesterday its first case of bird flu for more than a month, dashing hopes it had seen the last of an epidemic that has ravaged poultry and killed 24 people across Asia.
The outbreak, discovered at the weekend at a chicken farm in Kyonggi province, was the first new case since Feb 5 and 16,000 poultry at the affected farm were destroyed on Sunday, the agriculture ministry said.
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