Ireland has enacted a mandatory housing order for poultry and captive birds to combat an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu. The virus, detected in a turkey farm, has resulted in high bird mortality, impacting the poultry industry and raising concerns about food prices and human transmission.

Avian influenza cases surge in Europe, prompting poultry culls and raising concerns over food supply and pandemic risks.

Ireland on Wednesday imposed a mandatory country-wide housing order for poultry and captive birds, effective from November. 10, following the first outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a farm in the country since 2022.

The presence of the virus has been detected in three similarly sized laying hen flocks in the county since October 19.

Paris: The World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said that Hungary has reported a concerning outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu on a

An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, was detected on a turkey farm near Diksmuide in the north of Belgium this week.

Of those four flocks, three are in Alberta. On October 30, the presence of the virus was confirmed in one flock in each of the following counties: Ponoka, Sturgeon and Wetaskiwin. With these three new confirmed cases, nine commercial poultry flocks in Alberta have now been impacted by HPAI to date in 2025.