More than 50 highly pathogenic bird flu cases now in Europe
Huge numbers of poultry have been culled across the EU, as the highly pathogenic form of bird flu spread in Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic since the New Year, and into Germany, where a case of the H5N8 bird flu was confirmed in a poultry farm in the eastern state of Saxony just over a week ago.
All poultry on the farm at Bad Lausick, near Leipzig, were slaughtered, and a quarantine area set up around it, as required by EU directive whenever a case of this notifiable disease is found.
