# Weekly poultry outlook: bird flu outbreak spreads in Europe
						 | The Poultry Site

> Highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu has been detected on poultry farms in Germany and the Netherlands, with the Dutch ministry culling 200,000 chickens. A second outbreak in England led South Korea to ban poultry imports from the region, and the UK raised its threat level to medium.

- Date: 2020-11-06 · published 2020-11-06T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: disease · region Europe · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/50294-weekly-poultry-outlook-bird-flu-outbreak-spreads-in-europe-the-poultry-site
- Commodities: [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md)

## Why it matters

Europe's poultry outbreaks and South Korean import bans reduce export demand for European poultry and trigger culls, which can lower European chicken supply and shift trade flows toward Brazil and the US.

## Read by commodity

- CHICKEN: bullish ▲

## Sources

- thepoultrysite.com: https://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/weekly-poultry-outlook-bird-flu-outbreak-spreads-in-europe

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