Belgium has ordered that each one poultry be stored indoors from Thursday following the detection of a fowl flu outbreak, the federal meals security company stated on Wednesday, as Europe faces a powerful resurgence of the illness.
The unfold of fowl flu raised issues amongst governments and the poultry business after it killed or led to the culling of lots of of hundreds of thousands of poultry in recent times, disrupting provide, fuelling larger meals costs and elevating the chance of a brand new pandemic.
Neighbouring France took the same resolution to Belgium on Tuesday and the Netherlands final week.
An outbreak of extremely pathogenic avian influenza, generally referred to as fowl flu, was detected on a turkey farm close to Diksmuide within the north of Belgium this week, the World Organisation for Animal Well being (WOAH) stated earlier on Wednesday.
The H5N1 pressure of fowl flu killed 319 birds whereas the remainder of the 67,110-strong flock was slaughtered, the Paris-based WOAH stated within the report posted on its web site, citing Belgian authorities.
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The WOAH additionally stated on Wednesday that Slovakia had reported an outbreak of fowl flu on a poultry farm, in an indication that the lethal virus continues to unfold quickly in Europe.
In its newest outbreak, the Netherlands will cull round 161,000 chickens at a poultry farm within the central-eastern area of the nation after fowl flu was detected there, the federal government stated in a press release on Wednesday.
