Bird flu found on a turkey farm in Hedel, Netherlands

Posted: 03/03/2022 Save as favorite Bird flu was diagnosed at a turkey farm in Hedel, Gelderland. It is probably a highly pathogenic variant of the virus. To prevent the virus from spreading, the approximately 64,500 animals on the farm are culled by the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority. There are no other poultry farms in the 1 kilometer zone around the infected farm. There are 6 other poultry farms within the 3 kilometer zone, which are sampled for bird flu. There are 10 other poultry farms in the 10 kilometer zone. For the zone of 10 kilometers there is an immediate transport ban that relates to all birds and breeding and consumption eggs from a location with birds. The ban also applies to bird ...