Dutch poultry farmers to keep animals indoors due to bird flu

Poultry farmers in the Netherlands were ordered on Tuesday to keep animals indoors until further notice due to new outbreaks of a highly contagious strain of bird flu, the government said.

The decision followed the detection of a second case of bird flu within a few days, on a farm just north of Amsterdam.

Last weekend the first case of the animal disease since July was detected, while last year more than 6 million birds in the country had to be culled after dozens of outbreaks.