S.Korea to slaughter thousands of birds
(AP)


<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070120/ap_on_he_me/skorea_bird_flu"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070120/capt.sge.jzb59.200107080500.photo00.photo.default-512x365.jpg?x=130&y=92&sig=qBlIzYu.dEC2em8yPbFOLA--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="An Egyptian health department worker, wearing a protective suit, disinfects a house in Al-Abiyat, north of Cairo in 2005. An Egyptian woman died from bird flu overnight, bringing to 11 the number of people in the country to have succumbed to the disease, the heath ministry has said.(AFP/File)" border="0" /></a>AP - South Korean quarantine officials are set to slaughter 273,000 poultry after an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, the Agriculture Ministry and health officials said Saturday.</p><br clear="all"/>