Vaccine found for bird flu?
North Korea claims that it has a vaccine for the H5N1 type of bird flu. While there's no news of where the vaccine was developed, or how effective it is, the North Korean government is now mandating that entire flocks of poultry are inoculated with the drug.
210,000 chickens and other poultry were slaughtered last year after the Bird flu hit North Korea. This new vaccine arrives just as the disease hits South Korea, where the government has been forced to cull 1.13 million poultry.
While the number of Bird flu cases has sharply declined in recent months, the disease, if it were to mutate and infect humans, has the potential to cause a worldwide pandemic.











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