Sweden slaughters 3,200 turkeys after discovering bird flu on the farm

Sweden slaughtered 3,200 turkeys after discovering bird flu, officials said on Wednesday, effectively stopping the country's poultry exports to markets outside the European Union for at least three months. The massacre follows a series of outbreaks of bird flu in Europe in recent weeks, with suspicions of wild birds spreading the disease. "So far, we only have one infected farm in Sweden, but we don't know how much of the virus we have in wildlife ... so, of course, there is a risk that another farm will be infected," Katharina Gielen, a chief department of the Agriculture Council from Sweden, he told Reuters. googletag.cmd.push (function () {googletag.display ('dfp-noticiasagricolas-post-banner2');}); The disease, found in the Skane region of southern Sweden, had already killed some 1,400 turkeys on the farm before slaughter began on Tuesday, she said. Germany said it is considering slaughtering up to 70,000 ...