Amsterdam: The authorities discovered an outbreak from a very contagious bird flu strain on a farm in the Netherlands and said they would destroy around 170,000 chicken, the Ministry of Agriculture said in a statement on Monday.
The closest farm in Noord Holland Province will be closed when the test for the H5N1 virus is carried out and to determine whether it has spread, the ministry said.
Hundreds of thousands of chickens, ducks, turkeys and dozens of wild birds have been destroyed in the Netherlands because the disease outbreak begins in 2021.