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Some 1,000 ducklings have died under mysterious circumstances at a poultry farm on Jeju Island, but authorities found no signs of bird flu. The Jeju Provincial Administration said Wednesday 1,000 out of 1,200 one-to-two-month-old ducklings died Tuesday at a duck farm in Dopyung-Dong. About 10 died at the same farm on Oct. 21.
Health officials said tests of samples taken from the dead birds by Jeju Poultry Research Center did not find them infected with avian influenza or other respiratory viral infections. However, Jeju has asked the National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service to conduct a thorough examination and culled the remaining birds at then farm.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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