Netherlands reports first avian influenza outbreak since December 2023
The outbreak was reported in Putten
19 November 2024
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By: The Netherlands reported its first bird flu outbreak in almost a year on Monday, reported Reuters.
The agriculture ministry said around 23,000 chickens at a farm in the central Dutch city of Putten had been culled to contain the outbreak.
The report follows a confirmation by the UK government on Sunday that a strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus had been found in southwest England.
