South Korea culled 5.3 million birds during the last known outbreak of bird flu in 2003. The H5N1 virus began ravaging Asian poultry stocks in late 2003 and has killed more than 160 people worldwide.

SEOUL — South Korea’s agriculture ministry said on Tuesday it had confirmed the highly pathogenic H5N8 strain of bird flu in samples from wild birds in the central west of the country and issued its ...

A committee of experts announced Tuesday that it assumes migratory birds were responsible for this year's outbreak of avian influenza. The dynamics-investigation committee of the Animal and Plant ...

South Korea will begin deploying drones at airports in the first half of this year to help prevent bird strikes, part of an overhaul of aviation safety that was announced four months after the ...