Belgium’s top food safety official has said that initial tests on thousands of dead chickens had not proved a link between their deaths and the avian influenza outbreak in the Netherlands.

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Piet Vanthemsche, head of the Belgian Food Safety Agency, said that although final results of the tests would not be available until Friday, initial tests indicate that the cause of death is not avian flu, reported Reuters.


Officials were alerted when 2,000 chickens died at a Belgian poultry farm near the border with the Netherlands. Precautionary measures have been taken while the cause of death is investigated.

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