FILE PHOTO: Free-range chicken are seen on a field outside Munich, southern Germany, August 8, 2017. REUTERS/Michael Dalder/File Photo
HAMBURG (Reuters) - Bird flu has been found on another chicken farm in Germany and a programme to slaughter up to 70,000 poultry is being prepared, authorities said on Tuesday.
Type H5N8 bird flu was confirmed in a farm near Rostock in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, said a spokesman for the local government authority Landkreis Rostock.
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