Bulgaria reports avian influenza outbreak
The outbreak took place at an industrial farmMore than 80,000 chickens will be culled as a result, reported Reuters.
The Bulgarian food safety agency said it had also found the highly contagious disease at a backyard farm in the same village and at a backyard farm in a nearby village of Varvara and would cull about 100 chickens there.
The farms had been hit by the highly pathogenic avian influenza type A, the agency said.