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Germany culls chickens over bird flu fears – Yahoo News Australia
German authorities have ordered the culling of 29,000 chickens after bird flu was detected on a poultry farm.
About 29,000 chickens will be slaughtered in Germany after bird flu was found on another poultry farm, authorities say.
Type H5N8 bird flu was confirmed in a farm in the eastern area of Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state government said.
The 29,000 chickens are now being slaughtered and a 10-kilometre observation area is being set up covering 482 nearby farms with about 644,000 poultry, the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte local government authority added.
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