THE traditional Christmas turkey dinner could be under threat if the worst avian flu outbreak in UK history continues to spread, farming experts have warned. So far, bird flu has been detected at 1…
There has not been a case of avian flu on his farm but made the decision as a preventative measure to protect his chicken and duck processing plant on the site, which processes birds for other farmers."At the moment everybody in the industry is just on tenterhooks constantly.
"If we're going to have a situation where the government is going to continue shutting down businesses and shutting down farms, we need financial support,” he said. "The rest of the country had it through"If we are being forced to close through government policy, we have to have that same financial support that everybody else had so that when we've done the clearout and when we reopen again, we still have a business to come to.
This can occur when humans touch dead or alive contaminated birds, their droppings or secretions from their eyes.
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