Bird flu continues to spread in Europe.. 80,000 chickens were slaughtered in the Czech Republic

About 80,000 chickens are due to be slaughtered in the Czech Republic on Tuesday due to bird flu, while the first outbreak was detected in Slovenia, with the virus continuing to spread in Europe through migratory birds.

Veterinarians are slaughtering 80,000 chickens infected with bird flu on Tuesday at the Lebotines farm, about 45 km north of Prague.

Since the end of last week, an outbreak of bird flu has killed more than 100,000 chickens in the Czech farm, which had 188,000 chickens before Christmas.

"The slaughter of chickens" infected with bird flu is "underway," National Veterinary Administration spokesman Peter Mager told AFP.

He added, "The numbers show that this highly contagious H5N8 strain is violent and kills quickly and on a large scale, especially poultry."

This year, the Czech Republic recorded 48 outbreaks of bird flu, which is the highest annual rate.

The Slovenian authorities said that a small farm in the northeast of the country was quarantined on Tuesday after the discovery of the first infection with bird flu, confirming that it was the first with the H5N8 virus this year.

Tests were carried out following a spike in the number of dead birds on a farm near Slovenska Bistrica, about 100 kilometers northeast of the capital, Ljubljana.

France recently announced the monitoring of a focus of bird flu in the southwest of the country, while the British authorities slaughtered earlier this month about half a million birds against the background of the largest wave of bird flu ever witnessed.

Belgium and the Netherlands have also imposed measures to isolate poultry in recent months after discovering foci of the disease.

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