Bird flu costs million German bird life

berlin - Germany has since the outbreak of bird flu in November killed more than a million birds. This was reported by the German Ministry of Agriculture Thursday.

Until early this month, 803. 000 chickens, turkeys and ducks slain on 78 farms where infection had been established with the Influenza A virus subtype H5N8 virus. 254. Another 000 animals left in the middle of last month living on eleven companies were culled as a precaution.

The bird flu epidemic is not yet over in Germany. Wednesday it was announced that in the last state which was not affected, Saarland, also an infection has been detected. This type of flu is very contagious among birds but harmless to humans.