Czech vets decided to liquidate healthy poultry at three chicken farms in the area where the emergence of the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus strain was confirmed on Wednesday, Zbynek Semerad from the State Veterinary Administration said on Thursday.
The authorities will cull the poultry at two farms in the village of Loucky and at a farm in the village of Zarecka Lhota after having consulted the European Commission and the Czech Agriculture Ministry.
In all, 68,000 birds will be culled though no virus has been discovered among them, Semerad said.
Approximately the same number of infected chickens has being liquidated since Thursday morning by the firefighters and soldiers at the poultry farms in Kosorin and Netreby, east Bohemia area, where the dangerous H5N1 strain has been detected on Wednesday.
Three cases of dangerous H5N1 strain of bird flu had already been uncovered in Czech last month.
The first case of bird flu in the Czech Republic was found in March 2006 after which 13 cases of the disease have been registered. In all cases birds have been infected by the H5N1 virus, which also poses danger to human beings.
Source: Xinhua
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