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BRIEFING - ASIA HEALTH - NOV 27, 2006.

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An executive briefing on Health for Nov 27, 2006, prepared by Asia Pulse (http://www.asiapulse.com), the real-time, Asia-based wire with exclusive news, commercial intelligence and business opportunities.

BIRD FLU SPREADS IN SOUTH KOREA DESPITE QUARANTINE MEASURES

SEOUL - Bird flu was found in a pair of chickens raised in South Korea's southern city of Seosan, north of Iksan where the first outbreak took place and thousands of chickens were subsequently culled, government officials said Monday.

The chickens found to be infected with the deadly epidemic had been born out of eggs supplied from the Iksan poultry farm where the highly-virulent strain of…

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