S. Korea confirms new case of pathogenic bird flu

South Korean officials said Monday they discovered a new case of highly pathogenic avian influenza at a quail farm in the southwestern part of the country.

The disease was suspected to have recently killed about 1,000 quails at the farm in Gimje, 262 kilometers southwest of Seoul, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry said in a press release.

The discovery was the third case since Nov. 25, when an outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu was confirmed, the first case in three years, on a poultry farm in Iksan, about 230 kilometers south of Seoul. The latest outbreak occurred 18 kilometers south of the farm in Iksan.

http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/177607.html