162,000 chickens culled after bird flu outbreak at Deurne broiler farm

Avian influenza has been confirmed at a broiler farm in Deurne. According to NOS, 162,000 chickens are being culled there to prevent the virus from spreading.

Three other poultry operations surround the farm within a one-kilometer radius and seven more within three kilometers. The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) will monitor these farms closely over the next ten days.

Deurne is located approximately 10 kilometers from Ysselsteyn in Limburg, where authorities detected avian flu on a poultry farm for the third time in one week.

A transport ban has been imposed immediately within a 10-kilometer radius of the infected Deurne farm. Within this zone, 46 poultry farms are located, some of which were already in a restricted area following recent outbreaks in Ysselsteyn and Veulen.

To limit the spread of avian influenza, a nationwide mandatory housing order for poultry farms has been in effect across the Netherlands since October.