Belgium Orders All Poultry To Be Kept Indoors Over Bird Flu Outbreak - Beritaja

Belgium has ordered that each poultry beryllium kept indoors from Thursday following the discovery of a bird flu outbreak, the national nutrient information agency said connected Wednesday, as Europe faces a beardown resurgence of the disease.

The dispersed of vertebrate flu raised concerns among governments and the poultry manufacture aft it killed aliases led to the culling of hundreds of millions of poultry successful caller years, disrupting supply, fuelling higher nutrient prices and raising the consequence of a caller pandemic.

Neighbouring France took a akin determination to Belgium connected Tuesday and the Netherlands last week.

An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called vertebrate flu, was detected connected a turkey workplace adjacent Diksmuide successful the northbound of Belgium this week, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said earlier connected Wednesday.

The H5N1 strain of vertebrate flu killed 319 birds while the remainder of the 67,110-strong flock was slaughtered, the Paris-based WOAH said successful the study posted connected its website, citing Belgian authorities.

The WOAH besides said connected Wednesday that Slovakia had reported an outbreak of vertebrate flu connected a poultry farm, successful a motion that the deadly microorganism continues to dispersed quickly successful Europe.

In its latest outbreak, the Netherlands will cull about 161,000 chickens astatine a poultry workplace successful the central-eastern region of the state aft vertebrate flu was detected there, the authorities said successful a connection connected Wednesday.