“What we know is their bio-security is good so this risk of spread from this farm is probably quite low,” he said.
“When we find this disease we take quick action to remove the birds as a possible source of further infection and we also restrict all the farms with birds in an area around it of 10km to look for possible further spread or possible other infected farms so we can get on top of those early as well.
“In parallel with that we'll be looking for other possible sources of the disease, including any links to the disease that we're seeing in the Netherlands and Germany, and that will include looking at the risk from wild bird spread to our national flock.
“From what we know so far we know this is a strain that is highly pathogenic to birds, so this is a disease of poultry.