{"id":197500,"date":"2025-10-08T12:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T12:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/197500\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T12:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T12:33:10","slug":"denmark-to-cull-150000-chickens-after-bird-flu-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/197500\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark to cull 150,000 chickens after bird flu outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Denmark will cull 150,000 chickens after detecting an outbreak of the highly contagious H5N1 bird flu virus in a flock in the southeastern part of the country&#8217;s Jutland peninsula, the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The agency said in a statement the outbreak is the first in a Danish poultry flock since April when it lifted restrictions on poultry farming imposed in December 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It said in December owners of poultry and other captive birds must keep their animals indoors or under cover, citing an increased risk of infection.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Dutch government on Tuesday announced it would cull 71,000 chickens at a poultry farm in the northern part of the Netherlands following the detection of bird flu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Louise Breusch Rasmussen, editing by Anna Ringstrom)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Denmark will cull 150,000 chickens after detecting an outbreak of the highly contagious H5N1 bird flu&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[97858,49,48,97861,97857,8267,84,97859,97860,97862],"class_list":["post-197500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-bird-flu-virus","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chickens","tag-danish-veterinary-and-food-administration","tag-denmark","tag-health","tag-jutland-peninsula","tag-poultry-farming","tag-poultry-flock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}