The latest case of bird flu in Yorkshire is not the deadly H5N1 strain
The confirmed case bird flu on a duck-breeding farm in East Yorkshire, is not the deadly H5N1 strain, said Defra, but the H5 virus.
Officials have begun culling around six thousand birds and an exclusion zone around the farm is preventing any transfer or poultry or poultry waste in or out of the area.
This comes just a day after the contagious H5N8 virus was confirmed by Dutch authorities at a poultry farm in the Netherlands.
Officials have reassured the public that the disease does not pose a risk to humans.
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