Riyadh: Six new cases of highly contagious bird flu (H5N8) were reported over the past twenty-four hours in Saudi Arabia.
The Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture said that the cases had been detected in traditional poultry farms in the city of Riyadh and the governorates of Al-Kharj and Al-Ahsaa.
The specialised teams discovered other birds which tested positive in a market in Jeddah and enforced the emergency quarantine plan, reports Al Riyadh.
The Saudi authorities culled a total of 642, 962 birds in three poultry projects located in the City of Riyadh and the governorates of Dharma and Al-Mazahmia.
The national vet lab in Riyadh has so far analyzed 2182 samples ever since the avian influenza broke out in Saudi Arabia.
The ministry has launched hotline 8002470000 to report suspected cases of the bird flu disease to the animal health authorities round the clock.
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