AGRICULTURE Secretary Emmanuel Piñol on Friday declared an outbreak of H5 bird flu in Pampanga province, the country’s first, and at the same time ordered the culling of 400,000 chickens to prevent the virus from spreading.

No animal-to-human transmissions have been reported, he said.

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