Chile culls whopping 40,000 poultry after detecting 1st bird flu case in the industry
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After detecting its first bird flu case in an industrial setting Monday, Chile has culled and buried 40,000 poultry. Authorities have not detected more cases in other areas.
"It's a very limited event, our surveillance in the peripheral region keeps giving us negative results," Orellana said during a press conference in Santiago, adding that the culled birds represent a small fraction of the country's 30 million poultry.
"We hope to have this situation contained and that Chile regains its status of being free of highly pathogenic bird flu," he added.
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