‘Emergency measures to contain outbreaks of bird flu in Britain and the Netherlands have been announced by the European Commission.
It comes after Environment Secretary Liz Truss confirmed that a virus found at a duck breeding farm in East Yorkshire was the ”highly pathogenic” H5 strain of avian flu.
The transport of poultry and eggs throughout the Netherlands was banned after an outbreak of the H5N8 bird flu strain was confirmed at a chicken farm in the central province of Utrecht.’
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Niamh Harris
Writer at Your News Wire