Xinhua Agency, The Hague, October 22 (Reporter Wang Xiangjiang) Another breeding farm in the Netherlands reported an avian influenza epidemic. The Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Administration issued a communiqué on the 22nd, saying that a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus has been detected in a laying hen farm in the eastern province of Heldland. In order to prevent the spread of the epidemic, the bureau decided to cull about 161,000 poultry in the farm.

According to the communiqué, a transport ban was immediately imposed within 10 kilometers of the infected farm, prohibiting the transport of poultry, seed eggs, eaten eggs, poultry feces, used mattresses and other animals and animal products from the farm in the area.

Another poultry farm is located within 3 km of the farm, while 25 commercial poultry farms are located within 10 km.

On the 6th of this month, a poultry farm in Drenthe province in northeastern the Netherlands reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza, and about 71,000 poultry were culled. On the 16th, the Dutch government announced the nationwide implementation of poultry captivity and isolation measures to prevent the epidemic from spreading further.