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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Sophie Kevany

Avian flu has led to the killing of 140m farmed birds since last October

Live chickens being moved by digger into a container
Footage taken by animal charity Essere Animali in Italy appeared to show live chickens being moved by digger into a container before lethal gas is added. Photograph: Essere Animali

More than 140 million birds have died and hundreds of millions of pounds have been spent in the past year in the US, UK and EU in tackling bird flu, as some experts said continual culling was “morally” wrong.

With an international agreement on the use of vaccinations likely to be one or two years away, the situation will probably worsen this winter as outbreaks of bird flu continue to rise.

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