A total of 44 birds out of a flock of 69 were killed in Bretzfeld, in a backyard in the southwestern part of Germany due to a reported outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu virus.
According to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) citing a report from Germany’s food and agriculture ministry, the outbreak was in Bretzfeld, in the Baden-Wurttemberg region.
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As of Feb. 7, OIE said all poultry and captive birds were culled and safely disposed in an OIE report quoted by Reuters.
It also said that no poultry, poultry-products or captive birds have been dispatched.
The case of this bird flu virus was first confirmed in a wild bird last January.
However, no birds on farms were involved at that time.
