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The emergency culling of around 15,000 ducks at a Czech poultry farm began today after an outbreak of bird flu, according to the state veterinary service, DPA reported.
The H5N1 virus, a subtype of the influenza A virus, was discovered on a farm in the small southern Czech town of Frahelc in the South Bohemia region.
The farm previously housed 22,000 ducks, but around 7,000 of them have already succumbed to the disease in the past few days.
"This shows how aggressive the virus is and how the disease spreads," public health official Frantisek Kuba said, according to CTK news agency.
An outbreak of bird flu has been established on a farm in Krivo Pole
The ducks are thought to have contracted the virus from wild waterfowl.
A safety and surveillance zone with a radius of 3 kilometers has been created around the outbreak, BTA writes.
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