Bird flu still affects wild birds in the north – Cheraw Chronicle

The bird flu virus has not left yet. In recent weeks, hundreds of dead wild birds have been found in the northern Netherlands. This mainly concerns barnacle geese and black-headed gulls on the northern coast and in the Groningen Nature Reserve. That reports De Volkskrant. It is said to be a highly pathogenic H5N8 species, and it is contagious not only to poultry, but also to birds of prey. According to the newspaper, between 10 and 40 percent of Al Shaheen winter hawks were affected in 2016.
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