Case of bird flu reported at chicken farm in Hampshire: Second outbreak hits UK in four months but Public Health says risk to humans is very low

A case of bird flu was last night reported at a chicken farm in southern England - the second outbreak of the disease in four months.

Officers ordered that the entire flock at the farm in Hampshire be culled, and they imposed a 1km (0.6 miles) exclusion zone around the site.

Defra, the Government's environment department, said the chickens tested positive for the H7N7 strain of avian influenza.

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