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About 110,000 chickens are due to be slaughtered after an outbreak of H5N8 bird flu on farms in northern Germany on Thursday, officials said.
According to the Wächta district council, the disease was confirmed on a Langwege spawning farm in the Wächta district of northern Lower Saxony.
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Vechta is a major region for poultry production. A 3-kilometre lockdown area around the farm and a 10-kilometre observation area have been imposed, the council said. There are 352 farms in these regions.
The global spread of avian influenza is causing concern among governments and the poultry industry as it can devastate bird flocks, cause trade restrictions and pose a risk of human infection.
France’s agriculture ministry announced in June avian flu-related restrictions on poultry farming across the country, citing the end of the epidemic after 16 million birds were culled in the worst ever crisis of a highly contagious virus. was released.
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The risk to humans from the disease is thought to be low, but it has occurred in farm birds in the past, requiring extensive slaughter programs to contain it.