An outbreak of bird flu on a Suffolk farm was probably linked to cases of the disease in Hungary.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the virus found at the Bernard Matthews farm in Holton, Suffolk, last week and the virus found in wild geese in Hungary last month may be “identical”.
Work has started on cleaning and disinfecting the huge turkey sheds at the Bernard Matthews farm at Holton after the outbreak of avian flu.
The company at the centre of the UK bird flu outbreak has defended its import methods as officials investigate whether the disease came from Hungary. Bernard Matthews said it transported meat products from its plant in Hungary but its records showed they were not from the infected bird flu zone. However, the firm Bernard Matthews farm has halted Hungarian imports and exports as a precaution, reported recently by BBC.
This outbreak of bird flu has created an alarming situation in UK.