Bird Flu Outbreak Reported for First Time
From Times Wire Reports
North Korea acknowledged an outbreak of bird flu for the first time but said no humans had caught the disease.
The North’s official Korean Central News Agency reported that the outbreaks occurred at a “few chicken farms” and that “hundreds of thousands of infected chickens” were burned before burial. It said no farm workers were known to have been infected.
The North has suffered food shortages for years and relies on outside aid to feed its people, making the bird flu outbreak a further blow to the isolated nation’s food supply.
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