The Local Germany https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Bird flu scare prompts pre-Xmas turkey cull Health officials have ordered a mass cull of thousands of poultry after a bird flu outbreak was confirmed as the highly pathogenic H5N8 strain. https://www.thelocal.de/20141217/thoussands-of-turkeys-culled-in-bird-flu-scare Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:00:00 +0100 thoussands-of-turkeys-culled-in-bird-flu-scare Saxony slaughters 1,400 farm fowl after bird flu outbreak A spokesperson for the Health Ministry in Saxony said on Friday around 1,400 fowl had been slaughtered following an outbreak of the deadly bird flu virus in the eastern German state. https://www.thelocal.de/20081010/14811 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:37:00 +0200 14811