Avian Influenza H5N8 -- Iran
Avian flu has infected Iranian chicken farms, posing a challenge to chicken breeders and the country's meat output, Financial Tribune daily reported [Tue 23 Jan 2018].
Since the beginning of the current Iranian calendar year [Tue 21 Mar 2017], about 30 percent of egg-laying hens, or 20 million, and 10 percent of broiler chickens, amounting to one million, in the Iranian farms have been culled for the infection with the disease.
"If the virus spreads further among broiler chickens, the
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