South Korea starts bird flu cull
South Korea started culling hundreds of thousands of birds on Sunday around a farm hit by a fresh bird flu outbreak, officials said. The mass slaughter took place at a poultry farm near the central city of Cheonan south of Seoul, the agriculture ministry said. “We started culling 273,000 chickens and other poultry this morning within a 500 meter radius of the farm,” a ministry official said. Full Story