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A poultry farm in Altforst is being cleared after a highly contagious variant of bird flu has been diagnosed.
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A poultry farm in Altforst is being cleared after a highly contagious variant of bird flu has been diagnosed.
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Amsterdam
Despite an obligation to keep poultry farms since last month, bird flu is on the rise in the Netherlands. Last Friday, a fourth outbreak was detected at a poultry farm in Terwolde, Gelderland. More than a thousand victims have already been found among wild water birds. Dead birds are also found in surrounding countries.
‘A worrying development’, according to Thijs Kuiken, professor of comparative pathology at Erasmus University Rotterdam. According to him, the signs may point to a major outbreak of the H5N8 virus, a so-called ‘highly pathogenic’ variant that can be serious and deadly for birds.
According to Kuiken, it is ominous that the virus was so early during …
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