In an effort to contain a strain of avian flu discovered on a farm in the southern part of the Netherlands near
the border of Belgium, Dutch officials announced the culling, or mass killing, of the farm’s 127,000 egg-laying hens, along with imposing a poultry transport ban within 1 kilometer of the farm.
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