Bird flu outbreak reported at Bulgarian farm


SOFIA, April 12 (Xinhua) -- The Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA) reported on Friday an outbreak of the highly pathogenic bird flu at an industrial farm.

The virus was detected on a broiler breeding farm with 390,000 birds in a village, 240 km southeast of the capital Sofia, the agency said in a statement.

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