{"id":316786,"date":"2025-11-30T17:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T17:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/316786\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T17:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T17:15:09","slug":"bird-flu-confirmed-at-commercial-poultry-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/316786\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird flu confirmed at commercial poultry site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bird flu has been confirmed at a large, commercial poultry site, according to the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It says a 3km (1.9 mile) protection zone and a further 10km (6.2 mile) surveillance zone have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/animal-disease-cases-england\/bird-flu-premises-near-ashcott-wells-and-mendip-hills-somerset-aiv-2025-slash-116\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:declared around premises;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">declared around premises<\/a>, which is near the village of Ashcott, in Somerset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Defra said the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 had been confirmed on 29 November.<\/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\">It added that all the poultry on the premises would be humanely culled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 10km surveillance area includes Glastonbury, Street and numerous villages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The introduction of the disease control zone means by law people must follow strict <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/avian-influenza-bird-flu-cases-and-disease-control-zones-in-england\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:biosecurity and hygiene rules;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">biosecurity and hygiene rules<\/a> to avoid any spread.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">These include not moving poultry without a licence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow BBC Somerset on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbcsomerset\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcsomerset\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">X<\/a>. Send your story ideas to us on email or via <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/47DEoQy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:WhatsApp on 0800 313 4630;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">WhatsApp on 0800 313 4630<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More stories like thisInternet links<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bird flu has been confirmed at a large, commercial poultry site, according to the Department for Environment Food&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7394,49,48,95815,141064,84,137865,141065],"class_list":["post-316786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-avian-flu","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-commercial-poultry","tag-defra","tag-health","tag-protection-zone","tag-the-department-for-environment-food-and-rural-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316786","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=316786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}