Spain: Thousands of birds to be slaughtered in Catalonia after a possible case of bird flu on a farm

Spanish Catalan authorities are investigating a possible case of H5N1 bird flu at a turkey farm in the province of Lleida. This was reported on Friday by the newspaper "Vanguardia". According to her, the farm is located in the village of Arbeka. Local authorities are forced to implement a protocol requiring preventive measures, in particular, thousands of birds will be slaughtered on farms within a radius of 3 km from the one where the suspected case was discovered. Soon the Ministry of Health of Spain should publish the final results of the tests. The last case of H5N1 was detected in Catalonia on a farm in the province of Girona in 2017. As World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday, the recent sharp increase in the spread of H5N1 avian influenza in mammals ...