Czech vets are due to cull eighty thousand hens at a farm wherein over a hundred thousand animals have died of bird flu considering the fact that late closing week, the kingdom veterinary office said on Tuesday.
The farm in Libotenice, approximately 45km north of Prague, had a complete of 188,000 hens earlier than Christmas.
"The culling of hens from halls tormented by bird flu is beneath manner," country Veterinary management spokesman Petr Majer advised.
"The numbers show that this strain, the especially pathogenic H5N1, is very competitive and kills hens especially rapid and on a mass scale," he brought.
He said vets would additionally wreck over a million eggs from the farm.
The Czech Republic has registered 48 outbreaks of chicken flu this 12 months, the very best variety in a calendar year in records.
The disease is currently plaguing Europe, with France reporting a scourge in its foie gras producing Landes area last week.
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