Germany: New outbreak of avian influenza among poultry

As reported by Agrarheute, the bird flu outbreak has just been neutralized on a farm in the Northeim district in Lower Saxony. It is about breeding laying hens on a free-range basis, or rather in a mobile hen house. Half of the herd of 200 animals died, the rest was liquidated and disposed of by veterinary services. This is another attack of bird flu in Germany in recent months. Recently, on January 10 this year. an outbreak of the H5N1 virus was detected on a turkey farm in Bavaria. There, as many as 20,000 birds were forcibly slaughtered. Two large outbreaks of the disease were detected in December. On December 20, the presence of the ...