55,000 ducks culled after bird flu outbreakpublished at 09:46 Greenwich Mean Time 6 March 2017
About 55,000 ducks have been culled after a bird flu outbreak at a farm on the Norfolk/Suffolk border.
The H5N8 virus was detected at Grange Farm in Redgrave, near Diss, which is run by Gressingham Foods.
Defra, external said no birds were infected, but they were culled over the weekend as a precaution.