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A boy cries as he recuperates after surgery during "Operation Smile" at a hospital in Manila's Makati financial district October 26, 2009. Operation Smile aim to provide free surgery for about a hundred children inflicted with cleft lips, cleft palates, and other facial deformities over a period of five days in Makati. REUTERS/Cheryl Ravelo

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    South Korea reports new low pathogenic bird flu case

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    Fri Nov 23, 2007 9:35pm EST
    Chickens are displayed for sale at a chicken store in Seoul November 26, 2006. South Korea's agriculture ministry said on Saturday it had discovered less virulent strain of bird flu at a poultry farm in the south west of the country. REUTERS/You Sung-Ho

    SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's agriculture ministry said on Saturday it had discovered less virulent strain of bird flu at a poultry farm in the south west of the country.

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    The ministry plans to cull 13,000 fowl, including 3,800 ducks infected by the virus, in a bid to prevent the spread of the strain of bird flu.

    The latest case occurred at a poultry farm in Gwangju, South Jeolla province, about 250 km from Seoul.

    South Korea has had seven outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu from last November to March, spending 58.2 billion won ($62.56 million) in quarantine.

    ($1=930.3 Won)

    (Reporting by Kang Shinhye; editing by Louise Heavens)
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