Confirmed bird flu case at a duck breeding farm in East Yorkshire
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A case of bird flu has been confirmed at a duck breeding farm in East Yorkshire.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said the risk to public health was very low.
The poultry is being culled and a 10km exclusion zone is in place.
The exact strain has not been confirmed but the H5N1 form, deadly to humans, has been ruled out by officials.
The virus spreads between birds and, in rare cases, can affect humans.
The case is the first in the UK since 2008, when chickens on a farm in Banbury, Oxfordshire tested positive for the virus. On Sunday, an outbreak of a highly contagious strain of bird flu as discovered at a poultry farm in the Netherlands.
The Dutch government has temporarily banned the transport of poultry and eggs.