The first European farmer to be hit by an outbreak of bird flu has described how he was shocked to discover 400 of his flock of turkeys had dropped dead in one night. The confirmation of the first H5N1 virus at a commercial farm in the EU has thrown France's €6bn (£4.1bn) poultry industry into chaos. Yesterday another case of bird flu was reported in Germany's Brandenburg province and Swiss authorities confirmed their first cases of bird flu but were carrying out further tests to establish if the birds had the H5N1 strain. France also reported that H5N1 had killed another 15 wild swans in the southeast. Daniel Clair was forced to destroy his flock of 11,000 turkeys after the deaths on Thursday at his farm in the Ain region of south-east France. "I found 400 bodies and the others were already very sick," he told the newspaper Le Parisien. "It struck like lightning." A 3km (1.9-mile) protection ring - inside a 10km observation zone - has been thrown around the farm. ...
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