Turkey farm ravaged in bird flu bout
Authorities scrambled to contain the country’s first outbreak of the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu in domestic poultry after the virus was found at a farm run by Europe’s biggest turkey producer.
About 2,500 turkeys have died since Thursday at the Bernard Matthews farm near Lowestoft in eastern England. Authorities said all 159,000 birds there would be culled over the next few days.
The strain tends to be transmitted to poultry by migrating wildfowl. An avian flu expert said the outbreak was surprising because it was outside the main bird migration period.
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