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Bulgaria reports bird flu outbreak at industrial farm

cde.news desk 27 April 2021, 17:01 · 1 min read

epa00777683 A Bulgarian health worker holds a hen at a home yard in the village of Sanchoglet some 300 km from Sofia, Bulgaria on Friday, 21 July 2006. An outbreak of bird flu has been detected in the village of Slunchogled in the Region of Kurdzhali in South Bulgaria. The Reference Laboratory of the National Veterinary Service in Sofia confirmed that the bird flu virus killed 107 domestic fowl in the village on July 19. All 480 poultry in the village will be destroyed before the end of Thursday. In four days time it will be known whether the virus is of the H5N1 type. EPA/VASSIL DONEV

SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgarian veterinary authorities will cull 40,000 laying hens in the southern village of Trilistnik after a bird flu outbreak was confirmed at an industrial farm there, the sixth since the start of the year, the food safety agency said on Tuesday.

Some 160,000 ducks and 194,000 hens have been culled at five other farms in the Balkan country since February as authorities try to contain the spread of the disease.

The agency said the farm had been hit by the highly pathogenic avian influenza type A for a fourth time since 2017.

(Reporting by Tsvetelia Tsolova; Editing by Alison Williams)

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