Poultry factories in Italy knocked down by bird flu

On Italian commercial farms, 4 million birds have been culled in the past few days due to the numerous outbreaks of avian influenza reported in the country. This is reported by meatinfo.ru. It is noted that many other European countries such as France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Hungary, Poland and Bulgaria have recently reported similar outbreaks in poultry farms. In Bulgaria, 80,000 birds were culled over the weekend following the reported outbreak on an industrial farm in the southern village of Tsalapitsa, according to the food safety agency. In Hungary, 5,000 turkeys on a farm in Bekes County were culled last week due to an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus. Three weeks ago, due to an outbreak of bird flu in the southern region of Bach-Kishkun, more than 38 thousand ducks were destroyed on one farm, and about 500 geese on the other. France also confirmed the presence of the virus at a poultry farm near the Belgian border last ...