On Saturday , the Netherlands eradicate 190,000 ducks in response to an avian flu outbreak , an epidemic that ’s break off out throughout much of Northern Europe . Since mid - November , the peculiarly morbific H5N8 melodic phrase of the virus has found its agency to Denmark , Finland , Sweden , Germany , and now the Netherlands as well . Reutersreports :
Officials said they were checking for bird flu at farms within three kilometres of the original site and enforce a prohibition on transporting fowl product within a 10 km radius .
The world ’s second large farming exporter , the Netherlands has more than 100 million hens , pigs , moo-cow and sheep on high-pitched - intensity farm . The density create the animals more vulnerable to disease outbreaks .
Last week Germanyprepared to cull8,800 geese because of avian flu . Even though it might feel like a shitty time to be a human being , at least you ’re not a European razz . smooth-spoken liner , correct ?
[ Reuters ]
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