News April
Chicken cull after bird flu find
Some 35,000 chickens at a poultry farm in Norfolk are being slaughtered
after dead birds tested positive for a strain of bird flu.
The dead chickens were found on Witford Lodge Farm in North Tuddenham,
about 13 miles (20km) west of Norwich. The government's chief vet
said it was likely to be the H7 strain, virulent among chickens
but less of a threat to humans than the H5N1 variant.
Dr Debby Reynolds added she did not know where the flu had come
from. Last month a swan in Cellardyke, Fife, tested positive for
H5N1 - the only confirmed case in the UK so far. Dr Reynolds said
there was no evidence of the H5N1
strain in the chickens from the Norfolk farm.
Source
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4932934.stm
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