{"id":40058,"date":"2025-10-27T23:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T23:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bird-flu-confirmed-at-commercial-poultry-premises-near-lakenheath\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T23:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T23:50:06","slug":"bird-flu-confirmed-at-commercial-poultry-premises-near-lakenheath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bird-flu-confirmed-at-commercial-poultry-premises-near-lakenheath\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird flu confirmed at commercial poultry premises near Lakenheath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A protection zone has been put in place following a case of bird flu at a commercial poultry premises. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the H5N1 virus <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/animal-disease-cases-england\/bird-flu-near-lakenheath-west-suffolk-suffolk-aiv2025-slash-70\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\">was confirmed at a property<\/a> near Lakenheath, in Suffolk, on Sunday and all birds would be culled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A 3km (1.9 mile) protection zone and 10km (6.2 mile) surveillance zone were put in place around the premises and would remain until the declaration was withdrawn. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It is the first confirmed case in the East of England since an outbreak near Attleborough in Norfolk, in August.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The disease is caused by a virus that infects birds and sometimes other animals, including foxes, seals and otters. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Defra said the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/bird-flu-avian-influenza-latest-situation-in-england#risk\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\">risk to the public was very low<\/a> but people should not touch or move any dead or sick wild birds.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cgkz3nk3lzlo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A protection zone has been put in place following a case of bird flu at a commercial poultry premises. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the H5N1 virus was confirmed at a property near Lakenheath, in Suffolk, on Sunday and all birds would be culled. A 3km (1.9 mile) protection zone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[2531,12420,407,2532,11103,8321,11001],"class_list":["post-40058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-bird","tag-commercial","tag-confirmed","tag-flu","tag-lakenheath","tag-poultry","tag-premises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40060,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40058\/revisions\/40060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}