CABANATUAN CITY: Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol downplayed the threat of another bird flu scare here even after the culling about 42,000 chi­ckens in a poultry farm detected with the virus and offered farm workers gratuity pay in the wake of another suspected outbreak.

Piñol, on Friday admitted that the virus of yet undetermined type was detected in a poultry farm at Barangay Concepcion in Cabiao town.

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