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Dutch poultry shut indoors amid bird flu – 7NEWS.com.au
Dutch researchers say they have found a highly pathogenic form of the H5N8 virus after previous bird flu infections among swan in Russia and Israel.
Dutch poultry farmers are keeping their birds indoors to comply with a government order after a highly contagious form of bird flu was found in two dead swans this week.
A spokeswoman for the Agriculture Ministry said that it was not yet clear how long the order will be enforced but noted that no cases have yet been found among commercial fowl.
Poultry is a 1.6 billion euro ($A2.7 billion) industry in the Netherlands, Europe’s largest exporter of chicken meat and eggs, employing 10,000 people on…
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