Meanings of cull poultry in English

Quarantine authorities would cull poultry within a 500-metre radius of the infected farm, the official added.

Indonesian health officials cull poultry in West Java province, January 10, 2007.

Quarantine authorities plan to cull poultry within a 3-km radius of the infected farm, an official of Ansong said.

The ministry began on Tuesday to cull poultry at a farm in eastern England where the virus has been confirmed.

However, the introduction of the animal welfare measures mean that 10 farms in Ireland will have to cull poultry to avoid breaching the regulations.

He said the authorities had not begun culling poultry in the region because the case looks like a limited one.

Ministry of Health spokesman Orya Maqbool Jan Abbasi said the first man to catch avian influenza had been working culling poultry.

He said no suspicious bird deaths had been reported in the state so far and that farmers would be compensated for culled poultry.

Malaysia found the H5N1 bird flu virus in chickens in a village near its capital last week and culled poultry nearby as a protective move.