HAMBURG (Reuters) - More than 15,000 turkeys were being culled on Thursday after the new bird flu subtype H5N5 was confirmed on a north German farm, authorities said, adding to concerns about the spread of different strains of the disease.
The H5N5 strain was found for the first time on a farm in Germany this week in Steinburg in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein which borders Denmark..
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