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(Reuters) -The spread of bird flu among poultry and dairy farms has heightened some health experts' concerns that the process of killing and disposing of poultry infected with the virus may pose a ...

AMSTERDAM, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The Dutch Ministry of Agriculture on Thursday ordered the culling of 200,000 chickens after highly pathogenic bird flu was found at a farm in the eastern town of Puiflijk.

Pure Prairie Poultry ran out of funds to care for over a million chickens across Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. Farmers and state ag departments are left scrambling. Hundreds of thousands of chickens ...

Bird flu has infected six farmworkers in Colorado this month — the most in any state — as health officials stressed the importance of preparedness to contain the H5N1 virus spreading in dairy herds ...

But the disease poses a real risk to the sector, so ultra-tight biosecurity is crucial, with farmers being told to check their premises for any cracks or openings where a wild bird may get in or ...

THE HAGUE, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- The Netherlands has ordered the culling of around 120,000 chickens at a poultry farm in the northern province of Friesland after a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu ...

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