A CASE of high risk H5N8 bird flu has been confirmed in the
German state of Lower Saxony and about 16,000 turkeys on the farm will now be
culled, authorities said today.
The case was confirmed in Cloppenburg in north Germany and
is the first farm-based case in Lower Saxony, one of Europe's largest poultry
production regions, the state's agriculture ministry said.
Several European countries and Israel have found cases of
H5N8 bird flu in the past few weeks and some have ordered that poultry flocks
be kept indoors to avoid the disease spreading.
The contagious H5N8 strain has been repeatedly found in wild
birds in much of Germany in recent days and the country's government has
tightened sanitary rules for farms and warned it may order poultry to be kept
inside.
Most outbreaks involved wild birds but Germany, Hungary and
Austria also reported cases in domestic duck and turkey farms where all poultry
had to be culled.
A case was also reported on a farm in Denmark on Monday.
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