The Netherlands will exterminate 190,000 chickens due to bird flu

Merdeka.com – Around 190,000 chickens from two farms in the eastern Netherlands will be culled after the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus was discovered on one of these farms, Dutch health authorities said late Tuesday (4/1).

The bird flu outbreak is the second reported to have emerged in the Netherlands this week.

Previously, similar findings were reported in the northern province of Friesland, leading to the culling of around 225,000 chickens in that location. This was reported by Antara citing Reuters, Wednesday (5/1).

Bird flu is often carried by flocks of wild birds in the fall and winter.

In recent weeks, the bird flu virus has spread rapidly in Europe and alerted industry after previous outbreaks caused the culling of tens of millions of birds.

Meanwhile, Israel previously found an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu that infected more than 62,500 turkeys, according to the ministry of agriculture and village development on Tuesday (4/1).

The infected turkeys were found on two farms in the village of Ram On in northern Israel, the ministry said in a statement.

In recent weeks bird flu has spread in dozens of chicken and turkey coops in northern and southern Israel. As a result, the authorities destroyed hundreds of thousands of chickens and there was a shortage of eggs in Israel.

The ministry said that veterinary services, which are currently operating according to emergency procedures, are continuing strict surveillance in a number of areas and isolating outbreak points.

H5N1 bird flu can also infect other animals such as cats, pigs and tigers.

In rare cases bird flu can also infect humans. [pan]

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