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Not in Germany!
I just watched the news and in Germany 16,000 turkeys got gassed and destroyed, because the H5N8 bird flu has risen it ugly head again here.
Suspect low-risk bird flu case found in big German poultry area | Fox News from yesterdayHAMBURG – German officials are preparing to cull around 16,000 turkeys after a first suspected farm-based case of low-risk H5 bird flu was discovered in Lower Saxony, one of Europe's biggest poultry-producing regions, authorities said on Wednesday.
Tests will now be carried out to establish whether the more threatening H5N8 strain is present, said the state agriculture ministry in Lower Saxony, whose farms have more than 35 million chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese.