Two separate outbreaks of bird flu in a town in northern Israel led the Agriculture Ministry to announce a state of emergency on Saturday night.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF Published: DECEMBER 25, 2021 20:05
Updated: DECEMBER 25, 2021 21:25

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A flock of chickens (Illustrative).(photo credit: PIXABAY)Advertisementhttps://trinitymedia.ai/player/trinity-player.php?pageURL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jpost.com%2Fisrael-news%2Farticle-689748&unitId=2900003088&userId=43dabe08-2b1a-4c7c-bafe-85ac9a956566&isLegacyBrowser=false&version=20211223_a54468f8a9ce1bc491ca7dbac28b069f261fc6a4&useCFCDN=0&themeId=140A state of emergency has been announced in Israel by the Veterinary Service at the Ministry of Agriculture on Saturday evening after H5N1bird fluwas found in chicken coops near the town of Margaliot leading to the killing of 320,000 hens after 244,000 hens were killed in a separate outbreak on Sunday.Margaliot is a moshav in northern Israel. It is located near the border of Lebanon in the Upper Galilee area near Kiryat Shmona.The Veterinary Service said that it isolated the coops, immediately stopped the marketing of eggs both from the coops and the sorting station that received them, and began to examine nearby coops…