Netherlands reports first bird flu outbreak since December 2023

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - The Netherlands reported its first bird flu outbreak in almost a year on Monday, as the agriculture ministry said around 23,000 chickens at a farm in the central Dutch city of Putten had been culled to contain the outbreak.

The report follows a confirmation by the UK government on Sunday that a strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus had been found in southwest England. — Reuters