Bird Flu Spreads to Poland, Hitting Farms Totaling 650,000 Poultry

Employees of the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWa) clear a poultry farm after a highly contagious variant of bird flu was diagnosed, in Zeewolde, Flevoland province, Netherlands, on Oct. 26, 2021. Jeroen Jumelet/ANP/AFP via Getty Images

PARIS—Poland has reported several outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu at poultry farms with flocks totaling nearly 650,000 birds, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday.

Poland is the European Union’s largest poultry producer.