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A number of bird flu outbreaks have been reported in Europe in the past few weeks (Representative)
Hamburg:
On another chicken farm in Germany, bird flu was found and a program to slaughter up to 70,000 poultry is being prepared, the authorities said on Tuesday.
In a company near Rostock in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the H5N8 bird flu had been confirmed, said a spokesman for the Rostock district.
About 4,500 chickens would have to be killed on the farm, but the farm has multiple locations and the total could reach 70,000, the spokesman said.
“In order to combat the outbreak of the epidemic and prevent further spread, it is necessary from a veterinary point of view to kill up to 70,000 poultry at several locations,” said the spokesman. “The preparations have started.”
A number of avian flu outbreaks have been reported in Europe in recent weeks in which wild birds were suspected of spreading the disease.
Around 16,100 turkeys were slaughtered after bird flu was found on another German poultry farm in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the authorities said on Monday.
Denmark ordered the killing of 25,000 chickens after H5N8 bird flu was found on a farm, authorities said Monday, halting the country’s poultry and egg exports to countries outside the European Union for at least three months.
Other cases have been reported from France and the Netherlands. Britain ordered a killing of 13,000 birds on a farm in northwest England after cases were discovered there.
The risk to humans from the disease is considered low, but previous outbreaks among farm birds have required extensive slaughter programs to contain them.
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