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S. Africa finds benign bird flu strain in ostriches
Reuters
July 3, 2006

South Africa has found a benign strain of bird flu on an ostrich farm in the country's west, officials said on Monday.

South Africa culled around 15,000 ostriches after a similar outbreak in 2004 in an effort to contain the highly contagious disease.

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Ostriches peer out of their enclosure at an ostrich farm in Kitengela, Kenya, October 22, 2005. South Africa has found a benign strain of bird flu on an ostrich farm in the country's west, officials said on Monday. (Radu Sigheti/Reuters)


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