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Third Dutch chicken farm infected with bird flu - government

Published 21/11/2014, 10:16
© Reuters. A man wearing a protective mask and suit inspects a container containing eggs and the bodies of culled chickens at a poultry farm, where a highly contagious strain of bird flu was found by Dutch authorities, in Hekendorp

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A third Dutch farm has been hit by an outbreak of bird flu, the government said on Friday, taking the infection to another province in the Netherlands, a leading exporter of eggs and poultry meat.

The Economics Ministry said in a letter to parliament the latest infection was discovered on a chicken farm in the northern town of Kamperveen, more than 100 km (60 miles) from two farms where infections were reported in the past week.

© Reuters. A man wearing a protective mask and suit inspects a container containing eggs and the bodies of culled chickens at a poultry farm, where a highly contagious strain of bird flu was found by Dutch authorities, in Hekendorp

It said all 10,000 birds would be destroyed.

(Reporting By Anthony Deutsch)

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