Kilkenny poultry farmers are being told to be on alert after a flock of free range turkeys had to be killed after contracting Avian Influenza. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine confirmed the positive tests were discovered in a turkey flock in county Wicklow. They confirmed the birds have been killed and an […]
IT’S flu. It’s not the Black Death or the Bubonic Plague. It is carried by humans, not by the Horsemen of the Apocalypse . Influenza viruses come in many forms and they come every year. They make a lot of people feel quite ill, some people feel very ill and for a few people they prove fatal. In Ireland flu kills dozens of people every winter, thousands across