More than 10,000 turkeys to be culled after bird flu outbreak on UK farm

More than 10,000 turkeys are set to be killed after another bird flu outbreak was confirmed on an English farm.

The birds will be culled at a premises in North Yorkshire after avian flu was confirmed there, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs confirmed. In a statement, it said: ‘Avian influenza of the H5N8 strain was confirmed at a turkey fattening premises near Northallerton on Saturday, November 28.

‘All 10,500 birds at the farm will be humanely culled to limit the spread of the disease. A 3km and 10km temporary control zone has been put in place around the infected site to limit the risk of the disease spreading.’The statement said there is not anticipated to be any impact on the supplies of turkeys or other birds over Christmas.Most other strains have also never infected humans, experts say, but there are four that have caused some concern in recent years, according to the NHS.

Public Health England and the Food Standards Agency also moved to reassure meat-eaters that avian influenzas pose a very low risk to people, and that properly cooked poultry products including eggs are safe.It is the latest in a series of bird flu scares in the UK, with

2020 the Year that just keeps on giving.

Can this year really get any worse? Dreading January after the 5 day halt in December. We’re going to pay dearly for this madness.

Goose it is then!

But aren’t they always culled at this time of the year?

Tbh they were due to be culled anyhow nothing to see here move on💤

Cull the flock? Don’t give the clown BorisJohnson any more ideas...

Just when they thought they were safe.

Grab ur bird now before xmas

I blame the Labour Party 😂😂 👇🏼

all birds must wear facemasks and employ social distancing plz report any birds you see breaking the rules to the bird police the old and the vulnerable birds are the most at risk..

Turkey fattening premises?

poor old birds human greed again filling them up with anti biotics ----and we are trying to stop chickens coming in from America

Gobble Gobble

Yupi , super , Bill G again predicted that few months ago , nobody believes in that fake Covid PLANdemia , so there’s need for other virus to destroy people’s lives

For clucks sake! 🤦🏻‍♂️

Can we not eat them?

Christ. Now it's birdflu. I actually reckon the next curve ball is going to be thegreatplaguethethird Stop scaremongering MSM - PLEASE

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