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Dutch H5N1 bird flu outbreak will see 190,000 chickens culled
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[January 05, 2022]
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Around 190,000
chickens on two neighbouring farms in the east of the Netherlands will
be culled after the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus was detected
on one of the farms, Dutch health authorities said on Tuesday night.
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 It is the second bird flu outbreak reported in the Netherlands this
week, after a similar discovery in the northern province of
Friesland led to the culling of around 225,000 chickens there.
Avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, is often carried by wild
birds in the autumn and winter.
It has been spreading quickly in Europe in recent months, putting
the industry on alert after previous outbreaks led to the culling of
tens of millions of birds.
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 (Reporting by Bart Meijer; Editing by Mark Potter)
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