The Hague (AFP) - The Dutch government on Friday ordered chook farmers across the nation to maintain their farm animals indoors after an endemic of incredibly contagious hen flu on a duck farm ended in sixteen,000 birds being slaughtered.
"since it probably involves a extremely contagious variant (of bird flu), a containment order has been instituted," the Agriculture Ministry said in a statement.
The measure "is being taken as a precaution to stay away from further illness" after a case of totally contagious class H5 hen flu was found at a farm in critical Netherlands.
Zoos and pet homeowners may still also stay away from contact between their birds and wild water birds and chicken waste, the department referred to.
It has also put in region a ten-kilometre (six-mile) transport ban across the farm, including the move of poultry, eggs and waste.
Dutch fowl farmers, already reeling from a contaminated egg scandal, were dealt a new blow in October over an epidemic of fowl flu which saw heaps of hens destroyed.
seeing that August the Dutch fowl trade has been on the centre of the egg scandal, which has unfold throughout a few European nations and even so far as Hong Kong.
thousands and thousands of eggs were dumped, and some 3.2 million chickens were killed after the banned insecticide fipronil made its manner into eggs after being used in chicken farms to fight lice.
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