# Avian flu returns to Nepal | WATTAgNet | WATTPoultry.com

> Highly pathogenic avian influenza returned to Nepal with two H5N1 outbreaks reported to the OIE, including a broiler breeder flock losing over 1,500 birds. Belgium also began state support for farmers hit by an H3N1 variant previously considered mild.

- Date: 2019-07-01 · published 2019-07-01T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: disease · region Nepal · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/57976-avian-flu-returns-to-nepal-wattagnet-wattpoultry-com
- Commodities: [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md)

## Why it matters

Outbreaks in small poultry sectors have limited global price effect, but they reinforce ongoing disease pressure on poultry output that supports chicken prices and modestly reduces feed demand.

## Read by commodity

- CHICKEN: bullish ▲

## Sources

- wattagnet.com: https://www.wattagnet.com/home/article/15528850/avian-flu-returns-to-nepal-wattagnet

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