Poultry Culled in Bird Flu Outbreak

–Poultry on a farm close to the bird flu outbreak in East Anglia are being slaughtered on suspicion of having the disease, Defra said yesterday. The 5,500 turkeys at Grove Farm in Botesdale, Suffolk, were among birds on four farms to be culled as a precautionary measure after they had dangerous contact with the outbreak.

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