AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Authorities found an outbreak of a highly-contagious pressure of fowl flu at a farm within the Netherlands and mentioned they’d cull about 170,000 chickens, the Agriculture Ministry mentioned in an announcement on Monday.
Close by farms within the province of Noord Holland will likely be sealed off whereas assessments for the H5N1 virus are performed and to ascertain whether or not it has unfold, the ministry mentioned.
Tons of of 1000’s of chickens, geese, turkeys and dozens of untamed birds have been culled within the Netherlands since outbreaks of the illness started in 2021.
(Reporting by Anthony Deutsch; Modifying by David Goodman)
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