BEIJING: A strain of bird flu previously undetected in Asia has been found in North Korea, which has culled thousands of chickens to contain the outbreak, a top UN expert said yesterday.
The secretive state, struggling with widespread famine after natural disasters and bad harvests in the 1990s, has so far culled 219,000 chickens and clamped down on bird movements.
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