2nd bird flu outbreak in Seoul

Posted on May 12, 2008 by nuke

from AP

South Korean officials said Monday they have killed all poultry in Seoul, the capital, to curb the spread of bird flu following a new outbreak of the disease in the city.

The Seoul government said the slaughter was necessary to contain the disease. It said it will now focus on preventing live poultry from being brought into the capital.

The slaughter began Sunday night, hours after authorities confirmed Seoul’s second outbreak of bird flu in less than a week. …

Two additional outbreaks of H5N1 were reported Sunday in poultry farms in Busan and Ansung. It was the first time the virus has been found in Busan, the country’s second largest city.

They were the 27th and 28th confirmed outbreaks of H5N1.

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5 Responses to “2nd bird flu outbreak in Seoul”

  1. swampie, on May 14th, 2008 at 8:16 pm Said:

    I really do believe that this is a disaster in the making.

  2. nuke, on May 14th, 2008 at 8:45 pm Said:

    InTrade predicts 23% probability of h5n1 in the US by December

  3. swampie, on May 14th, 2008 at 8:51 pm Said:

    This has huge implications for the food supply of the developing countries, but I’m not sure that anybody is noticing it yet.

  4. swampie, on May 14th, 2008 at 8:59 pm Said:

    Hell, if it gets into our poultry, it has huge implications for the food supply here.

    In the meantime, a man from a midwestern state said that the corn fields were too wet to plant and his oats that he’d planted were washed away in the rain.

  5. nuke, on May 14th, 2008 at 9:28 pm Said:

    Yes it does.

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