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Bird Flu Discovered At Dutch Farm; 216,000 Chickens To Be Culled

By Donna Ahern
Bird Flu Discovered At Dutch Farm; 216,000 Chickens To Be Culled

Authorities discovered an outbreak of a highly-contagious strain of bird flu at a farm in the Netherlands and said they would cull about 170,000 chickens, the Agriculture Ministry said in a statement on Monday.

Sealed Off Farms

Nearby farms in the province of Noord Holland will be sealed off while tests for the H5N1 virus are conducted and to establish whether it has spread, the ministry said.

An outbreak of the virus was also reported by the ministry at a farm in the southern province of Noord Brabant, a separate statement said.

Roughly 46,000 broiler chickens would be culled there, it said.

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Hundreds of thousands of chickens, ducks, turkeys and dozens of wild birds have been culled in the Netherlands since outbreaks of the disease began in 2021.

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