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Bird flu found on Norfolk chicken farm

Chickens found dead on a poultry farm have tested positive for bird flu, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said.

The virus has been found in samples taken from chickens found dead at the farm near Dereham, in Norfolk, and further tests are being carried out to establish the strain of the virus. Police said today that the farm at the centre of the outbreak was Witford Lodge Farm at Hockering, Norfolk. Officers were stationed at the entrance to the farm.

Preliminary test results showed that the virus is likely to be the H7 strain not H5N1, a Defra spokesman said.

All of the 35,000 birds on the farm will now be slaughtered as part of the precautionary measures.

The spokesman added: "Restrictions have been placed on the farm. When the additional laboratory results are known, further action may be taken."

Last month, a wild swan that was found dead in the harbour of a coastal town in Scotland was found to have died of avian flu.

That bird, which was discovered in Cellardyke, Fife, tested positive for the deadly H5N1 version of the virus, which has been responsible for the deaths of more than 100 people, mostly in Asia.

Although hundreds of wild birds have been tested in the last few months, the swan in Fife remains the only case of H5N1 to have been discovered in the UK.

While H7 versions of the disease can be highly pathogenic among poultry, and have crossed the species barrier to humans, outbreaks in people have been less serious than those of H5N1

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