Chickens stand in a barn on a farm with cost-free-vary eggs in the Hannover area.
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Germany has documented an outbreak of the remarkably pathogenic H5N1 fowl flu virus on a poultry farm in the northern aspect of the place, the Earth Organisation for Animal Wellbeing (WOAH) stated on Wednesday, including to a wave of circumstances in Europe.
The outbreak killed 5 poultry among the a flock of 24,000 on a farm in the point out of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern east of Hamburg, the Paris-primarily based WOAH mentioned in a report, citing German authorities.
Fowl flu, which has led to the culling of hundreds of hundreds of thousands birds in the previous several years, ordinarily strikes in Europe in the course of autumn and winter. It has not too long ago been detected on farms in several international locations such as the Netherlands, Italy, Croatia and Hungary.