220,000 chickens infected with bird flu to be slaughtered in Czech Republic

Veterinarians have begun slaughtering 220,000 chickens at a poultry farm in the village of Brod nad Tychou near the town of Tachov in the western Czech Republic, where a highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus has been detected. This was reported on Wednesday by the news agency ChTK. The poultry farm, which is one of the largest in the country, keeps about 742,000 chickens. They are located in three large production halls. Bird flu was detected in chickens in one of them. At the same time, veterinarians began slaughtering 12,000 chickens and 1,000 turkeys at a poultry farm in the town of Sedlcany in Central Bohemia. There, veterinarians also identified bird flu. As noted by the Czech media, such a large outbreak of bird flu, as in Brod nad Tychou, was not previously recorded in ...