Dutch slaughter 190,000 chickens following highly-contagious bird flu break-out at poultry farms

The Netherlands has carried out a mass culling of chickens, after at least two poultry farms detected a highly contagious strain of bird flu. Health workers killed around 100,000 hens at a poultry farm in a village located in the Dutch province of Utrecht. An additional 90,000 chicks were culled in the northern part of the country....