An outbreak of avian flu forces the culling of birds from a farm in the province of Lleida

Technicians from the Generalitat de Cataluña have detected an outbreak of avian flu in a farm located in the province of Lleida, where all animals will be sacrificed and around which a ten-kilometer animal movement restriction perimeter has been decreed. The conseller of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, and Food, Òscar Ordeig, informed this Wednesday in a press conference that, after the outbreak was known, the rest of the farms located initially within a one-kilometer radius of the affected one were inspected, in which no trace of the disease was detected. Ordeig pointed to wild birds as a possible origin of this avian flu outbreak, of which there are fourteen other active outbreaks in Spain. The conseller explained that this outbreak was detected this same Wednesday by technicians of the Generalitat and that now official confirmation is pending from the reference laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food, located in Madrid. Upon learning of this case, the ...