Corrects location of first outbreak in second paragraph
Corrects location of first outbreak in second paragraph
PRAGUE, Feb 17 (Reuters) – Czech authorities will cull practically 140,000 turkey and chickens at a poultry farm the place chicken flu was detected, Agriculture Minister Miroslav Toman mentioned on Monday.
The an infection, east of Prague, was the nation’s second case of the H5N8 chicken flu virus this 12 months after a farm within the east of the central European nation was affected in January.
“Testing proved this morning that it’s the highly-pathogenic H5N8 chicken flu model that’s lethal for birds, nevertheless its switch to people has not been registered thus far,” Toman mentioned.
Chook flu instances have additionally appeared in different international locations within the area for the reason that begin of the 12 months.
Toman mentioned one other farm with 120,000 birds was in a 3-kilometre sanitary radius across the affected location, and authorities would resolve on attainable culling there sooner or later.
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