The Department of Agriculture said broilers, the primary source of poultry meat, were not affected by the latest outbreak. - Reuters
MANILA (Reuters): The Philippines said on Wednesday (July 29) it had slaughtered nearly 39,000 chickens in a poultry farm north of the capital Manila to curb a bird flu outbreak, more than four months after detecting infections in a nearby province.
The Department of Agriculture's (DA) Bureau of Animal Industry has detected the presence of the highly infectious H5N6 subtype of the influenza A virus in an egg-producing farm in San Luis town in Pampanga province.
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