The Coming Crisis:  Dutch authorities were slaughtering thousands of chickens at a poultry farm in central Netherlands after an outbreak of a bird flu variety there, an agriculture ministry spokesman said.  Bird flu has been discovered at a poultry farm with some 47,000 chickens in Creil, in the central Flevoland province," Murco Mijnlieff said, adding it was believed to be an H7 low-pathogenic variety.  "The farm is being cleaned up and the chickens are being killed as a result of the outbr...

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