Reuters reports that the farm site is in Altforst, in the central Netherlands.
The discovery comes just days after a pair of wild swans tested positive for the H5N8 virus. Dutch poultry farmers had been ordered to keep their birds indoors to prevent them from contracting the illness from wild fowl.
Poultry is a €1.6 billion ($1.9 billion) industry in the Netherlands, Europe's largest exporter of chicken meat and eggs, employing 10,000 people on 2,000 farms.
A transportation ban was imposed for eggs, live birds and other farm products within a 10-km (6-mile) radius of the infected farm in the town of Altforst. There are 25 poultry farms in the area, a statement said.
Authorities were also testing for the disease at other poultry businesses within a 3-km radius.
The 2015 bird flu epidemic, this one involving the H5N2 strain, forced the killing of 48 million birds throughout the country. The government went to crazy extremes to stop the spread, stockpiling huge amounts of vaccine, killing birds, and quarantining entire farms. But none of the cures are really that great; vaccines – though the USDA does have one – stop the farmer from being able to export the birds, because a vaccinated bird looks just like an infected bi
The path of the latest variant of bird flu, this one called H5N2, has left a swath of tens of millions of dead birds throughout the Midwest. Egg-laying hens were especially hard-hit; in Iowa, for example, 25 million egg-laying hens were euthanized due to the disease. (There are, it’s worth noting, a few key things you can do to protect your own flock, if you have one.) The vaccine has already been tested on chickens, which is where that 100 percent figure comes from.
In line with the applicable EU rules, this positive vote follows the ‘green light’ given by the EU Member States on April 13th this year. [this] vote reflects the political support of the European Parliament on the authorisation of insect PAPs in poultry and pig feed, bringing us one step closer to the
The British Poultry Council has released its 2020 Antibiotic Stewardship Report which highlights the achievements made by the British poultry meat sector’s drive for excellence in bird health and welfare that’s delivering responsible use of antibiotics and safeguarding the efficacy of antibiotics across