Bird flu not found in farms near outbreak site, say Dutch officials
By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A highly contagious form of bird flu has not spread to two farms close to an outbreak site in central Netherlands, Dutch authorities said on Monday, as health safety officials continued to cull 150,000 birds at the infected egg producing farm. The discovery at the weekend near the village of Hekendorp, in the central Netherlands, triggered a three-day ban on shipments of all poultry products out of the country – the world's largest egg exporter – and a 10-km exclusion radius was set up around the infected farm, to be sealed for 30 days. …
