19.12.2020

A flock of free range chickens from a farm on the Island of Sanday in Orkney has tested positive for H5N8 Avian Influenza. Thirty-nine birds in the flock died and the remaining 11 were put down.
The last case of the H5N8 strain was found in a dead peregrine falcon in Dumfries and Galloway four years ago.