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On Monday, an agriculture ministry official told Reuters that South Korea has found bird flu in ducks on a poultry farm, 80 kilometers east of Seoul. It has come as the first discovery in four months and has been detected 30 days after the nation gained its bird flu-free status back.

The case included a strain called H5N8, which is the same kind of influenza that occurred in November 2015. The officials said that all 11,604 ducks present at the infected farm in the city of Icheon have been killed.

Sputnik News reported that the virus in avian influenza aka bird flu was detected for the first time in 1997 when it affected many people. Among the people who contracted the flu, six lost their lives. The respiratory disease can spread to humans from the bird species.

A latest study suggested that the Zika virus could have first spread in Brazil around a couple of years before the first reported cases. The mosquito-borne virus may possibly have reached the country in 2013, between May and December.

Though Brazilian health officials observed a cluster of illnesses identified by fever and rash towards the end of 2014, they didn't diagnose the patients with the less-known Zika virus officially before May last year.

As per an analysis of many Zika virus genomes appeared on Thursday in Science, international travel might have spread Zika to Brazil from French Polynesia, which was hit by Zika outbreak during the time period from 2013 to 2014.

Two flavors of chocolate sticks have been recalled by Trader Joe’s. The recall has been announced due to the possibility of the two flavors containing milk and apparently the list of ingredients mentioned on the two products does not include milk. An email was sent by Trader Joe’s on March 25, 2016 to inform the consumers regarding the recall. The company is taking these products off the shelves in an effort to prevent any problems due to the probability of milk being contained in the two flavors.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has formulated an outline for a guidance to offer support to pharmaceutical industry in its efforts to develop generic variants of opioid drugs that have been approved by it.

The generic variants will be developed using abuse-deterrent formulations (ADF). However, the FDA has revealed that generic ADF opioids will also be equally abuse-deterrent as the brand-name drug. This guidance is one of the several measures being taken by the FDA under an action plan for the re-evaluation of its advancement towards opioid drugs.

The Prius Plug-In by Toyota, the Japanese automaker is already commercially available. The company launched another model in the series named as the Prius Prime. The new model is quite much different from the previous one.

The new car receives many noticeable changes on exterior. For instance, changes in anterior and the grille of the vehicle. The front end of the Prius Plug-In looks outdated and plain, while the new model is more defined grille design that's connected to the slim headlights. There is a major facelift on its overall shape.

The new design has a lower arching back making the side windows appear longer. On the other hand, Plug-In has traditional aerodynamic styling of the original Prius cars. The Prius Prime has sporty design and its back is almost unique.

Last week, Apple Inc’s marketing chief Phil Schiller said that the new iPad Pro of the company is aimed at the ones who still use an old PC. So far, there isn’t any assurance over whether Apple’s iPad Pro can withstand that promise or not. Firstly, it doesn’t have some tools that are must for PC-like work, mainly a mouse or a trackpad.

Moreover, Apple will reduce the utility of the tablets by making it harder than it must be for workplace software creators to earn money via its App Store.

As there is much competition in this field with competitors including Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp., in the race to come up with hybrids of tablets and PCs that can work as both, Apple has missed a golden chance to dominate the touch-based world it led with the iPhone.