Meat-counter confusion in S. KOREA - (Washington Post)
June 7, 2008 – 7:02 pmSEOUL — It’s been a spooky spring in the beef-and-poultry aisle. South Korean shoppers have had to wrestle with risks real and rumored, domestic and imported, pathogenic and political.
More than 6 million fowl were exterminated to halt a nationwide epidemic of bird flu. The cull included every single known chicken, duck and goose in greater Seoul.
The strain of Asian bird flu that swept across South Korea, it turned out, was different from that found in Vietnam and Indonesia, which in rare cases jumps to humans and sometimes kills them.
Risky or not, poultry consumption plunged. The chicken business here lost about $6 billion in two months. It nearly ground to a halt after a report that a South Korean soldier might have been infected with bird flu. He wasn’t. Indeed, no humans were.
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