{"id":373592,"date":"2025-12-28T18:50:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T18:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/373592\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T18:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T18:50:27","slug":"poultry-to-be-culled-after-bird-flu-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/373592\/","title":{"rendered":"Poultry to be culled after bird flu outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A large commercial flock of poultry will be culled after bird flu was discovered at a farm in Worcestershire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the H5N1 virus had been found in the flock near Alvechurch, Bromsgrove.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bird flu spreads through contaminated feed and water or bird droppings and saliva, and there are currently mandatory housing measures in place if you have more than 50 birds.<\/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\">A 3km (1.86 mile) protection zone and 10km (6.21 miles) surveillance zone around the premises was declared at 15:00 GMT on Saturday, and will remain in place until further notice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An outbreak of bird flu was also declared at premises near Newark-on-Trent on Boxing Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow BBC Hereford &amp; Worcester on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/curation\/p0cjdsl7?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BBC Sounds;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">BBC Sounds<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbcherefordandworcester\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bbchw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">X<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbchw\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More on this storyRelated internet links<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large commercial flock of poultry will be culled after bird flu was discovered at a farm in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[159512,5650,49,48,84,137865,159513],"class_list":["post-373592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-bird-droppings","tag-bird-flu","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-protection-zone","tag-worcestershire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373592","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=373592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}