February 3, 2022

Over 160,000 chickens to be culled at farm in the Netherlands due to bird flu

The Dutch Agriculture Ministry said they have detected a H5N1 bird flu outbreak at a farm in the country, and about 168,000 chickens are set to be culled, Reuters reported.

No other poultry farms are located within the vicinity, but a ban on transporting poultry, eggs, and poultry waste has been imposed within a 10km radius of the detected area.

Since the disease was first detected in the Netherlands last year, hundreds of thousands of chickens, ducks, turkeys and dozens of wild birds have been culled.

-      Reuters