# H5N6 strain of bird flu hits Chinese poultry farm - FarmingUK News

> China's Ministry of Agriculture confirmed an H5N6 bird flu case on a Sichuan poultry farm, with 1,840 of 2,497 birds infected and over 2,260 culled. It is the first H5N6 detection on a poultry farm after four cases in swans this year.

- Date: 2020-02-10 · published 2020-02-10T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: disease · region China · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/54490-h5n6-strain-of-bird-flu-hits-chinese-poultry-farm-farminguk-news
- Commodities: [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md)

## Why it matters

A single farm outbreak is small in scale, so its direct impact on feed and poultry prices is minor, though it adds to wider Asian disease concerns.

## Read by commodity

- CHICKEN: bearish ▼

## Sources

- farminguk.com: https://www.farminguk.com/news/h5n6-strain-of-bird-flu-hits-chinese-poultry-farm_54943.html

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