The government has discovered bean geese in South Korea have also been infected with bird flu.
 
The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs held a briefing Wednesday and said they detected the H5N8 strain of avian influenza in dead wild geese found in a reservoir in Gochang, North Jeolla Province. This is the same strain confirmed earlier this week in Baikal teals, which are believed to have spread the disease.
 
Bean geese typically spend winter in Korea from early October to early March. They're the second most common migratory bird in Korea after the white-fronted goose.
 
Quarantine experts say the bean geese, unlike the teals, do not form clustered communities but are scattered across the country, which makes the whole country susceptible to bird flu.
 
An Environment Ministry official says experts are trying to tally their numbers nationwide.