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WARSAW — Two more outbreaks of bird flu have been reported in Poland at opposite ends of the country, authorities said on Friday, bringing the total number of incidents in Europe’s largest poultry producer to five this week.

One of the outbreaks of the H5N8 strain reported on Friday was in the eastern Lubelskie region at a farm about 500 meters from where three cases in turkeys were reported this week.

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Until then Poland had not had an outbreak of bird flu since 2017.

In the latest case in the Lubelskie region, 13,000 guinea fowl were affected, regional veterinary officer Pawel Piotrowski said.

An outbreak of the H5N8 strain was also confirmed on a chicken farm in Przygodzice, in the western Wielkopolskie region, Poland’s General Veterinary Inspectorate said in a statement.

State-run news agency PAP reported that 65,000 chickens were affected in Wielkopolskie.

“We don’t have the results of the tests yet but we already know it is positive,” Piotrowski told Reuters by telephone, adding that the guinea fowl would be gassed.