Bird flu detected in third Hungarian county

Hungarian food safety authority Nebih on Thursday announced outbreaks of bird flu in Bekes County (SE Hungary), the third county in the country where the viral infection has spread. Since late March, there have also been bird flu outbreaks in neighbouring Bacs-Kiskun and Csongrad counties, Nebih said. It added that a total of 241 farms have been affected in the three counties. In Bekes County, authorities are destroying some 23,500 turkeys in Battonya and almost 10,000 geese in Nagykamaras.