Christmas Bird flu scare prompts pre-Xmas turkey cull Health officials have ordered a mass cull of thousands of poultry after a bird flu outbreak was confirmed as the highly pathogenic H5N8 strain.
Health Saxony slaughters 1,400 farm fowl after bird flu outbreak A spokesperson for the Health Ministry in Saxony said on Friday around 1,400 fowl had been slaughtered following an outbreak of the deadly bird flu virus in the eastern German state.
