Category Geese

5,000 Birds to be killed due to avian flu in Washington State, USA

Government agriculture officials will kill up to 5,000 ducks, geese, chickens, pheasants and turkeys due to a bird flu outbreak at a hunting operation Washington’s Okanogan county. About 40 birds at a game farm in Riverside, Washington, were ill over…

H5N6 bird flu reported in NE China

Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province has reported an outbreak of the H5N6 bird flu virus in poultry, the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) announced Monday. Over 20,000 geese at a farm in Harbin, the provincial capital, showed symptoms of avian flu and…