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Some 23,000 chickens are to be destroyed at a poultry farm with a bird flu outbreak. The H5N8 avian influenza virus was found at Bridge Farm in Redgrave on the Suffolk/Norfolk border. A 6.2-mile (10km) control zone has…
An avian influenza virus that emerged in 2013 is suddenly spreading widely in China, causing a sharp spike in human infections and deaths. Last month alone it sickened 192 people, killing 79, according to an announcement this week by China’s…
Taiwan has culled nearly 130,000 poultry since the start of this year as authorities on Tuesday reported a fresh strain of bird flu cases on the island. The highly pathogenic H5N6 avian flu has been confirmed in three…
Czech authorities ordered a cull of up to 20,000 ducks and other poultry at a producer in the south of the country on Monday in the biggest single case of this year’s bird flu outbreak. The affected producer, Blatenska…
The culling of roughly 71,000 chickens was completed over the weekend at two poultry farms in the town of Kohoku, Saga Prefecture, marking Japan’s 10th case of bird flu this winter. The prefectural government will take all necessary measures…
About 63,000 birds are due to be culled at a Lancashire farm to prevent the spread of bird flu, which has already been found at two nearby premises. The decision was made after animal health investigators were unable to…
A second outbreak of bird flu has been confirmed in Lancashire, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has said. The H5N8 avian flu strain was confirmed in a flock of about 1,000 pheasants at a premises in…
Bangladesh discovered two outbreaks of the highly contagious H5N1 bird flu virus in poultry last week, according to reports from the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and a senior Bangladeshi health ministry official on Monday. A first case…
On the poultry farm “Harabalinskom” in the Astrakhan region due to the bird flu outbreak destroyed all poultry stock -. 600 thousand, reported “Interfax” the press service of the Ministry of agriculture and fishing industry of the Astrakhan region. …
France will scale back preventive slaughtering of ducks to counter bird flu after the culling of 800,000 birds this month helped slow the spread of the disease in the southwest, the country’s agriculture minister said on Thursday. France resorted…