Around 270,000 birds have been killed so far in 2022 to prevent the spread of bird flu across the country. The infected birds lived on a large-scale farming facility just outside the city of Valladolid, in the Castille and Leon region.
This is the second outbreak of bird flu detected in the region in less than a month.
Industry experts have emphasised their concerns over the outbreak in Iscar, just outside of Valladolid, due to a high concentration of farms in the area.
Within 10 kilometres of the farm, there are 32 other commercial farming facilities and six private farms.
Restrictions have been imposed on all nearby facilities.
Environmental campaign group Greenpeace described the region as “one of the areas with the highest poultry production in the country”.
They added: “This is more than enough reason for the controls to be exhaustive and to try to prevent it from spreading to other facilities, spreading to people and generating added pressure on the already threatened biodiversity.”
The birds are believed to have been living in cages, and on Wednesday, the Spanish Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food confirmed the outbreak at the farm.
They stressed the “virus cannot be transmitted to humans through cooked poultry meat, eggs or processed products derived from them”.
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In mid-January, French authorities announced 2.5 million birds would be slaughtered in the southwest regions of the country to contain bird flu outbreaks.
The French farming ministry added that of this number, about 1.2 million birds had already been killed, and that 1.3 million would be culled to curb the spread of the virus.
Additional reporting by Maria Ortega.
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