Europe has been experiencing the “most devastating” avian influenza epidemic ever seen on its soil for more than a year, health authorities said on Tuesday 20 December, with around 50 million birds slaughtered on farms infected by the virus.
Between October 2021 and September 2022, 37 European countries were affected by avian influenza and nearly 2,500 outbreaks were detected on farms across the continent, according to a report by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the...