Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom and NFU president Meurig Raymond have both spoken out about the potential avian influenza threat to the British poultry industry posed by backyard poultry keepers failing to follow safety rules.
Although a housing order has been put in place for poultry keepers across the whole of the United Kingdom, highly pathogenic H5N8 avian influenza has just been confirmed in a backyard flock of chickens and ducks in Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is the same strain of the virus found on a turkey unit in Lincolnshire just before Christmas and the same one that has been circulating in continental Europe.
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