Cloppenburg, Germany - Around half a million turkeys have been culled since December in a bird flu outbreak sweeping an area of northern Germany, officials said Thursday.
Some 38,000 birds were killed this week on three farms near the town of Cloppenburg, about 100 kilometres south of Hamburg.
Some 14,700 of the birds were infected with the H5N3 strain, which is not harmful to humans. The others were put to death as a precaution.
Officials set up an exclusion zone around the affected farms.
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