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Disease prevention authorities remained busy during the Lunar New Year holiday... trying
to prevent the spread of the avian flu,... although four new suspected cases of the virus
were reported. The agriculture ministry said Monday that
a chicken farm in the southwestern province of Jeollabuk-do and one in the southeastern
province of Gyeongsangnam-do appear to be negative for the virus,... but that there
is a high chance that two duck farms in the central Korean province of Chungcheongbuk-do
have been contaminated. The virus was confirmed in migratory ducks
in Jeollanam-do on Monday, after ducks were found dead a week ago.
Although AI cases have diminished recently, tensions remain since the incubation period
of the virus can last three weeks. Forty farms have been contaminated with the
virus so far, and at least 2-point-6 million ducks and chickens have been culled at 1-hundred-15
farms.