NETHERLANDS CULLING OVER 200,000 CHICKENS AFTER BIRD FLU OUTBREAKS

Mon 24 January 2022:

The Dutch Agricultural Ministry announced on Sunday that over 200,000 chickens had been slaughtered due to bird flu.

A total of 216,000 hens were culled on farms owned by the same firm in the northern town of Grootschermer and Willemstad city, according to a statement from the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality.

Transportation between chicken farms has also been halted, according to the ministry, as a precaution against the highly hazardous and transmissible disease.

Samples were gathered from other farms, and the situation is being continuously monitored, according to the government.

According to the World Health Organization, avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, is a kind of zoonotic (or animal) influenza that infects wild birds and poultry. It has infected people on rare occasions, although it is not easily transmitted between humans.

The majority of human cases of avian influenza have been linked to contact with infected living or dead poultry, either directly or indirectly.

The disease has caused outbreaks and deaths in 16 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East since it was first documented in Hong Kong in 1997.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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