AMSTERDAM, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Dutch health authorities were overseeing the cull of around 44,000 turkeys on a farm in the south of the country after the detection of a highly infectious strain of bird flu, the government said on Saturday.
The farm is in the town of Hedel, 50 km southeast of Utrecht. A transport ban was imposed on ten additional nearby farms, the Agriculture Ministry said in a statement.
More than a dozen casesof the highly lethal form of avian flu have been reported in the Netherlands in the past month, following dozens of cases earlier in the year.
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France has also seen a resurgence in cases after experiencing its worst-ever bird flu wave earlier this year.
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