German authorities have slaughtered 81,000 chickens since Friday in a bid to halt the spread of avian influenza.
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The country reported its first suspected case of the highly contagious disease on Friday at a farm in Schwalmtal in North Rhine-Westphalia, an area which borders Belgium and the Netherlands.
A spokeswoman for the regional environment ministry said 75,000 birds within a 3km-radius of the farm were slaughtered and 6,000 chickens on two farms which had taken deliveries from the farm were also killed.
Authorities in Belgium, meanwhile, ordered the slaughter of all birds at eight farms on Saturday. None of the farms had shown signs of avian flu but the health authorities said precautionary measures were necessary because the farms had received food from a lorry that had also serviced Schwalmtal.
Since the outbreak began in February, around 26 million birds in the Netherlands and 2.5 million in Belgium have been killed.
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