ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey culled thousands of birds and a few other animals on Sunday to prevent the spread of avian flu after reporting its first outbreak of the disease on a farm near the Aegean Sea, national media said.
The authorities also imposed a 3 km quarantine zone around the affected farm in northwest Turkey, where nearly 2,000 turkeys died from the globally feared disease last week, CNN Turk television said.
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