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No human deaths from the disease have been reported so far.

South Korea had to kill almost five and a half million birds during its first bird flu outbreak between late 2003 and early 2004.

South Korea previously confirmed 20 cases

Over the last three decades, the Republic of Korea has achieved what is widely acclaimed as "the economic miracle on the Hang-gang River." Since Korea embarked on economic development in earnest in 1962, its economy has grown at one of the fastest paces in the world. As a result, Korea, long one of the world's poorest agrarian societies, has emerged as an upper middle-income, fast-industrializing country.