Bird flu found on farm in big German poultry area

A case of bird flu has been found on a small turkey farm in Lower Saxony in northern Germany, one of Europe’s largest production regions, although it is not yet certain what variant of the disease it is, state authorities said on Wednesday. Tests are underway to see if the disease is of the high risk H5N8 type, but 8,400 turkeys on the farm in the Vechta area will be culled regardless of the outcome, the Lower Saxony state agriculture ministry said. Another farm in Lower Saxony also suffered a bird flu outbreak in November when 108,000 birds were culled.
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