HAMBURG, March 16 (Reuters) - A case of H5N8 chicken flu has been confirmed in a poultry farm withi
HAMBURG, March 16 (Reuters) – A case of H5N8 chicken flu has been confirmed in a poultry farm within the japanese German state of Saxony, German authorities mentioned on Monday.
The social affairs and safety ministry within the state of Saxony mentioned the case concerned chicken flu of kind H5N8 discovered on a farm in Unhealthy Lausick close to Leipzig. All poultry on the farm has been slaughtered and a quarantine space arrange round it.
A collection of outbreaks of the illness, which prior to now has led to main disruptions and slaughtering programmes in Europe’s poultry business, have been reported in Europe in previous months.
Chicken flu circumstances have appeared within the 4 central European nations of Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic because the finish of final 12 months. A earlier case was present in a wild chicken in Germany in January.
(Reporting by Michael Hogan, Modifying by Himani Sarkar)
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