In the North Brabant town of Sint-Oedenrode, the Dutch Food and Goods Authority (NVWA) has to clean up more than 130,000 chickens because bird flu has been diagnosed with a laying hens farm. The animals of two poultry farms located within 1 kilometre of this farm are also being cleared to prevent spread, the government reports Saturday.

In Russia, a variant of the avian flu virus has been skipped to humans. Seven employees of a poultry plant in the south of the country have become infected with the AH5N8 variant. It has not been seen before that avian flu is transmitted from animals to humans. However, you could wait for it. These people, working in the poultry farming sector, have (yet) no complaints and the virus does not seem to be able to (yet) be transmitted from human to human, but this mutation may be a beginning of a new pandemic as it mutates, and that will undoubtedly happen.

This can happen in the Netherlands too (Q cords)


Meanwhile, a considerable chicken farms have already been cleared.

Middelie: 35 chickens (hobby)
Puffy: 100,000 chickens
Puffy: 115,000 chickens
Altforst: 35,700 chickens
Lutjegast: 48,000 chickens
Terwolde: 20,000 ducks
Witmarsum: 90,000 chickens
Hekendorp: 100,000 chickens
Mijdrecht: 300 birds (hobby)
Maasland: 500 chickens
Saint Annaparochie: 21,000 chickens
Den Bommel: 25,000 chickens
Outpost: 28,000 chickens
35,000 chickens
Source: Monique Schouten


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