12.05.2011

Dutch authorities said they would destroy 8,800 chickens at an organic poultry farm in central Netherlands after the discovery of H7N7 low pathogenic  avian influenza, the second such case in two months.
Sixty farms within a 3 km (2 mile) radius of the farm in Kootwijkerbroek were to be screened. .
In March some 127,500 egg-laying hens were culled on a farm in the southern Netherlands after the H7 avian influenza strain was detected but tests later revealed it to be a low-pathogenic variant.
The Netherlands produces around 9.7 billion eggs annually, more than 7 percent of the European Union's production. Germany buys two-thirds of its egg exports.