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A chicken culling is underway after a third outbreak of bird flu was detected in England in just over a week.Control zones have been put in place after a new case was detected near Leominster in Herefordshire, following the discovery of two other cases on November 2.Authorities say they are taking ‘immediate and robust action’ after the H5N8 strain was found in Herefordshire and Cheshire, and H5N2 was confirmed in Kent, reports.Bird flu is an infectious type of influenza that spreads among birds but is rarely spread to humans.Most strains have never infected humans, but there are four that have caused some concern in recent years, according to the NHS.The risk level of bird flu – also known as avian influenza incursion in wild birds – was recently raised to ‘high’ in the UK.It comes after a series of outbreaks were reported across Europe in the past few weeks.Dutch health officials ordered the culling of 48,000 chickens after an outbreak was discovered on a farm in the northern province of Groningen.Meanwhile, two cases of H5N8 bird flu have been confirmed on farms in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.The British Government has launched an investigation after testing in Cheshire confirmed the ‘highly pathogenic strain’ is related to the virus currently spreading on the continent.The H5N8 strain has not infected any humans worldwide to date, according to experts.While several people around the world have been infected with H5N6, it does not infect people easily and isn’t usually spread from human to human.Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk.For more stories like this, check our .Not convinced?Get us in your feed

A chicken culling is underway after a third outbreak of bird flu was detected in England in just over a week.Control zones have been put in place after a new case was detected near Leominster in Herefordshire, following the discovery of two other cases on November 2.Authorities say they are taking ‘immediate and robust action’ after the H5N8 strain was found in Herefordshire and Cheshire, and H5N2 was confirmed in Kent, reports.Bird flu is an infectious type of influenza that spreads among birds but is rarely spread to humans.Most strains have never infected humans, but there are four that...

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