110,000 Hens to Be Slaughtered After Bird Flu Found on German Farm

110,000 Hens to Be Slaughtered After Bird Flu Found on German Farm
Chickens at a farm in Germany in a file photo. Sascha Schuermann/Getty Images
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HAMBURG, Germany—About 110,000 chickens are to be slaughtered after an outbreak of H5N8 bird flu on a farm in north Germany, authorities said on Thursday.

The disease was confirmed on an egg-producing farm in Langwege in the Vechta district in the northern state of Lower Saxony, the Vechta district council said.