Bulgaria

Bulgaria reports new bird flu outbreaks

Poultry

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.

 NEWSLETTER - Stay informed with the latest news!

Comments





Similar articles

CHINA

China will investigate beef imports as oversupply squeezes prices

Any trade measures to try to reduce beef imports would hit China's largest suppliers, Brazil, Arg...


Read more Read more
SPAIN

INTERPORC regrets the decision of the CHS to block the development of farms in Murcia

This measure, in his opinion, does not at all reflect the important advances that the Spanish liv...


Read more Read more
DENMARK

New Danish Crown board in place

Soren Skou was elected chairman, and Daniel O. Pedersen and Ulrik Bremholm were elected to the tw...


Read more Read more
Websolutions by Angular Software and SpiderClass