September 28, 2024

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Chicken flu found out at Dutch farm; over 160,000 chickens to be culled

Government have found out a deadly disease of what they believe is the highly-contagious chicken flu pressure, at a farm within the Netherlands and about 168,000 chickens will probably be culled, the Agriculture Ministry mentioned in a commentary on Tuesday.

There aren’t any different poultry farms within the instant neighborhood.

The ones inside a radius of 10 kilometers (six miles) had been banned from transporting poultry, eggs and poultry waste to forestall the unfold of the H5N1 virus, the ministry mentioned.

Masses of hundreds of chickens, geese, turkeys and dozens of untamed birds had been culled within the Netherlands since outbreaks of the illness started in 2021.