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Bird flu adds to woes of Dutch poultry farmers

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The hague: Dutch poultry farmers, already left reeling by a contaminat­ed egg scandal, were in a new flap over an outbreak of bird flu with thousands of hens to be destroyed.

“An outbreak of a variant of H5 bird flu has been detected in a poultry farm in Zeeland province,” Economic Affairs Minister Henk Kamp said.

All 42,000 egg-laying hens in the southern Netherland­s farm will have to be culled “to stop the disease spreading” in accordance with European regulation­s, he added in a statement.

The ministry also ordered an immediate ban on the transporta­tion of poultry, eggs, meat and manure within a one kilometre zone around the farm located in the village of Sint Philipslan­d. — AFP

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