South Korean authorities have placed a cat shelter in the capital Seoul under quarantine after detecting the H5N1 strain of bird flu in two cats at the facility, the country's agriculture ministry said.
There have been no cases of the highly pathogenic bird flu reported in humans in South Korea, the ministry said.
The two cats that tested positive for H5N1 were among 38 that have recently died at the shelter, news agency Yonhap reported.
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