Two million laying hens have been culled in Bulgaria since an outbreak of avian influenza began in October. Over 40% of laying hens are affected by the disease. These alarming figures were reported to BNR by Ivaylo Galabov, chairman of the Union..
An outbreak of avian flu has been established at a quail egg farm near Etropole in Sofia region. The farm has a closed hatching and raising cycle. Around 25,000 infected and contact birds are to be culled and the eggs destroyed. A 3-km. protection..
In just a few days, three outbreaks of bird flu have been discovered in the Pleven region (Central Northern Bulgaria), which necessitated the killing of nearly 300,000 poultry . One outbreak was registered on a poultry farm with 100,000 hens and the other..
The Bulgarian Food Agency has ordered the killing of nearly 250,000 birds due to an outbreak of bird flu on a poultry farm in Bulgaria's town of Assenovgrad. This is the third bird flu outbreak found there over the past year. The first outbreak in..
Poultry breeders staged a protest in front of the building of the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA) in Sofia over the vague measures taken by the agency’s administration to counter bird flu. According to BFSA data, at this time there are 22..
Almost 90,000 birds have been culled after outbreaks of avian flu were reported in Bulgaria, the Food Safety Agency has announced. The greatest numbers were culled in the districts of Dobrich, Haskovo, Sliven and Yambol.
