Avian Influenza — Netherlands
Dutch poultry farmers, already left reeling by a contaminated egg scandal, were in a new flap on Friday [13 Oct 2017] over an outbreak of bird flu, with thousands of hens to be destroyed.
“An outbreak of a variant of H5 bird flu has been detected in a poultry farm in Zeeland province,” Economic Affairs Minister Henk Kamp said.
All 42 000 egg-laying hens in the southern Netherlands farm will have to be culled “to stop the disease spreading” in accordance with European regulations, he
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