Each quarter Defra highlights emerging avian disease trends in a free-to-access report published on its website. It is a report worth receiving, and this latest update covers bird flu, wooden breast syndrome and unusual diseases emerging in broilers. Newcastle Disease in Europe The disease was confirmed on a multi-age commercial broiler farm in Romania in April. The birds were reported to have been vaccinated three times with a live attenuated vaccine, but lack of biosecurity and incorrect vaccination procedures were […]
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