Bulgaria to cull 25,000 quails to comprise flu outbreak
SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria will start culling about 25,000 quails and destroy quail eggs on an industrial farm close to the capital Sofia after detecting a extremely infectious pressure of fowl flu, the meals security authorities mentioned on Wednesday.
The outbreak on the farm within the city of Etropole, some 80 kilometres (49.71 miles) east of Sofia was detected after studies for top mortality among the many birds, the meals security company mentioned in a press release.
The chance to people from the illness is taken into account to be low, however previous outbreaks amongst farm birds have resulted in in depth slaughtering programmes to comprise the unfold.
(Reporting by Tsvetelia Tsolova; Modifying by Tomasz Janowski)