South Korea plans to kill cats and dogs to try to prevent the spread of bird flu after an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 virus at a chicken farm last week, officials said today.
Animal health experts, however, suggested it was “a bit of an extreme measure” when there was no definitive scientific evidence to suggest that cats or dogs could pass the virus to humans.
Slaughtering cats and dogs near an area infected with bird flu would be highly unusual in Asia.
Indonesia has killed pigs in the past, but most countries concentrate solely on destroying poultry.
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