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Bulgaria reports new bird flu outbreaks

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The Bulgarian Food Safety Agency has reported recently new highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu cases at a poultry farm in General Toshevo in the region of Dobrich.

Posted on Mar 06 ,10:45

Bulgaria reports new bird flu outbreaks

The Bulgarian agency announced that immediate steps have been undertaken to eradicate the outbreak according to European legislation. On the affected livestock site, action will be taken to cull 140,000 birds.

The local authorities have also said that a three-kilometer protection zone and a 10 km observation area around the holding were set up, with a ban on the trade and movement of domestic and wild birds.

"The clinical examinations of the birds kept in the other settlements on the territory of Dobrich region have been strengthened," the agency said in a statement.

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