11.01.2016

A suspected case of avian influenza has been identified in grandparent chickens at a farm in Fife, Scotland. Around 40,000 birds will be culled. Initial test results indicated the presence of a strain of avian influenza (H5N1), a low pathogenic strain. Last July a highly pathogenic avian influenza strain was confirmed at a poultry farm near Preston, Lancashire, when around 170,000 chickens were culled.