Authorities found an outbreak of a highly-contagious pressure of chook flu at a farm within the Netherlands and mentioned they might cull about 170,000 chickens, the Agriculture Ministry mentioned in a press release on Monday.
Close by farms within the province of Noord Holland can be sealed off whereas exams for the H5N1 virus are carried out and to determine whether or not it has unfold, the ministry mentioned.
An outbreak of the virus was additionally reported by the ministry at a farm within the southern province of Noord Brabant, a separate assertion mentioned. Roughly 46,000 broiler chickens can be culled there, it mentioned.
A whole bunch of hundreds of chickens, geese, turkeys and dozens of untamed birds have been culled within the Netherlands since outbreaks of the illness started in 2021.
(Reuters)