11,000 ducks culled near detection site of new subtype H5 virus

Some 11,000 healthy ducks at a farm in central Taiwan's Yunlin County were culled a day earlier after a highly pathogenic subtype of the H5 bird flu virus was detected near the farm, agriculture officials said Thursday.

(Full text of the story is now in CNA English news archive. To view the full story, you will need to be a subscribed member of the CNA archive. To subscribe, please read here.)