British officials on Monday confirmed an outbreak of bird flu in turkeys on a farm in eastern England.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said the turkeys had tested positive for the H5 subtype of the disease. It was not yet known whether it was the H5N1 strain, which has killed dozens of people and led to the cull of millions of birds around the world.
The department said a three-kilometre protection zone and a 10-kilometre surveillance zone had been set up around a farm in Diss, northeast of London, and all birds on the premises would be slaughtered.
In February, an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu on a poultry farm in the same part of England led to the slaughter of almost 160,000 turkeys.
No definitive source was found for that outbreak, which matched a strain that had earlier infected geese in southern Hungary.
Britain's first case of H5N1 flu was in a swan in Scotland in 2006.
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