On Dec. 14, 2016, reports from China and South Korea painted a picture of spreading H5N6 avian flu in birds in Asia, while Hungary, Poland, and France report more farm outbreaks involving the H5N8 strain. According to FluTrackers, an infectious disease message board, the detection of H5N6 in China’s Sichuan province has triggered the culling of 38,000 poultry.