First bird flu outbreak in UK since 2017 confirmed in Suffolk

First bird flu outbreak in UK since 2017 confirmed in Suffolk

Written by Press Association

Public Health England has said that the risk to public health is very low

Cases of bird flu have been confirmed at a chicken farm in Suffolk, the government has said.

All 27,000 birds at the commercial farm will be culled after a number were found to have the H5 type of avian flu, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said on Tuesday.

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That’s not true, the culling crew gear that lives in our yard with the Defra contracted haulier has been out several times this autumn, they have taken out turkeys as well somewhere.
Last week they took two artic loads of crates, cages and gas over to Ireland. So they are definitely culling somewhere, I suppose it may be only suspected cases perhaps but I wouldn’t have thought they would cull unless it was confirmed?