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Dutch to cull 8,800 chickens in bird flu alert
Posted Thursday May 12, 2011
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch authorities on Thursday said they would destroy 8,800 chickens at an organic poultry farm in central Netherlands after the discovery of bird flu, the second such case in two months.
Sixty farms within a 3 km (2 mile) radius of the farm in Kootwijkerbroek were to be screened and tests were expected to show on Friday whether the H7 strain of bird flu detected was highly pathogenic, the government said in a statement.
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-Posted Thursday May 12, 2011
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch authorities on Thursday said they would destroy 8,800 chickens at an organic poultry farm in central Netherlands after the discovery of bird flu, the second such case in two months.
Sixty farms within a 3 km (2 mile) radius of the farm in Kootwijkerbroek were to be screened and tests were expected to show on Friday whether the H7 strain of bird flu detected was highly pathogenic, the government said in a statement.
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