It has been confirmed by agriculture officials that a turkey farm in County Monaghan has had an outbreak of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1.
As a result, restriction zones are being set up around the area where additional movement control and surveillance measures will be put in place reports, OutbreakNews Today.
The Irish Health Protection Surveillance Centre has confirmed that although the H5N1 subtype can cause serious disease in poultry and other birds, no human infections with this virus have been reported in Europe and therefore risk to humans is considered to be very low.
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