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| Bird flu firm gets compensation | Bird flu firm gets compensation |
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| Bernard Matthews will get £589,000 compensation for the birds compulsorily killed to prevent the spread of bird flu, Defra has said. | |
| Cases of the highly virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu were discovered on a farm owned by Bernard Matthews in Suffolk in February. | Cases of the highly virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu were discovered on a farm owned by Bernard Matthews in Suffolk in February. |
| More than 160,000 of the company's birds were slaughtered. | More than 160,000 of the company's birds were slaughtered. |
| The payout for healthy birds killed was announced in Defra's final epidemiology report into the avian flu outbreak. | The payout for healthy birds killed was announced in Defra's final epidemiology report into the avian flu outbreak. |
| Meat importation | |
| Officials say compensation is in place to encourage early reporting of bird flu to minimise the spread of the disease. | |
| The report analyses all the possible ways the virus could have arrived at the farm in Holton. | |
| No specific proven source has been found but the reports says the most likely explanation is that the infection came from the importation of turkey meat from Hungary. | |
| Chief Veterinary Officer Debby Reynolds said: "Most potential routes of infection are controlled through current procedures. | |
| "However, the outbreak in Suffolk appears to be the outcome of a series of normally low probability events and circumstances which cumulatively led to the introduction of disease." |