CZECH REPUBLIC FACES MAJOR BIRD FLU OUTBREAK
July 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL HEALTH officials have supervised the destruction of 27,528 broiler chickens at a poultry farm in the central Czech Republic, in a devastating outbreak of bird flu. Following confirmation of the disease at Norin, Usti nad Orlici, Pardubický province, movement controls were imposed on poultry farmed in the region, along with disinfection and quarantine of the birds on the affected farm. Vaccination has been blocked, with all directly susceptible birds being slaughtered. A European Commission report noted a protection zone of 3 km radius and a ...
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