Nearly 20,000 chickens culled in Changhua due to H5N2 bird flu

A total of 18,810 chickens were culled on a poultry farm in central Taiwan's Changhua County late Thursday after it was confirmed that they had been infected with the highly pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza, inspection officials said Friday.

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