36,000 birds culled in the Netherlands
Dutch health authorities on Tuesday ordered all poultry to be kept indoors to curb an outbreak of highly contagious bird flu after an H5 strain of bird flu was reported and confirmed this week on a poultry farm in the central Flevoland province. "About 36,000 birds were slaughtered on the farm to prevent the virus from spreading," the document issued by the Agriculture Department stated.
The outbreak is the second to hit the Netherlands this year after a similar outbreak in February. The Netherlands was worst hit in 2003, when a deadly strain of H7N7 avian influenza broke out, killing at least one person and infecting 255 flocks, leading to the culling of 30 million birds. A case of AI was reported recently in England and that triggered the alarm for the UK poultry industry.
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