Turkey reports avian influenza outbreak on poultry farm

It's the first outbreak in over a year
calendar icon 5 November 2024
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Turkey has reported an outbreak of the highly contagious H5N1 strain of avian influenza on a poultry farm for the first time in over a year, Reuters reported, citing the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) on Monday. 

The disease, commonly called bird flu, killed 211 poultry out of a flock of some 790,000 at a commercial farm in the province of Konya, the Paris-based WOAH said, citing a report from the Turkish authorities. The outbreak is part of a seasonal upturn in bird flu in Europe and the Middle East.

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