The Netherlands culls 44,000 turkeys due to a highly contagious virus
The Dutch government said on Saturday that health authorities are supervising the culling of about 44,000 turkeys on a farm in the south of the country after the discovery of a highly contagious strain of bird flu.
The farm is located in the town of Heidel, 50 kilometers southeast of Utrecht.
The Ministry of Agriculture said in a statement that a ban on transportation had been imposed on ten other neighboring farms.
More than a dozen cases of the deadly strain of bird flu were recorded in the Netherlands last month, after dozens of cases earlier in the year.
France has also seen a resurgence of infections after it suffered its worst ever wave of bird flu earlier this year.
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