lördag 24 oktober 2026
Bird flu: 40,000 Danish turkeys to be culled
A highly contagious strain of bird flu has been detected on the island of Zealand. Consequently, approximately 40,000 turkeys in the Danish municipality of Slagelse are to be culled.
According to the country’s food safety authority, the case in Bøgelunde is the first confirmed outbreak of highly contagious bird flu this season.
Mette Kirkeskov Sie, a unit manager at the authority, stated in a press release that it is common for the first cases of contagious bird flu to appear in the autumn, as migratory birds move across Denmark.
“Furthermore, highly pathogenic bird flu has been detected in several wild birds over the past few weeks. It is therefore not surprising that we are now seeing the season’s first case of highly pathogenic bird flu in a poultry flock,” the statement reads.
The birds are scheduled to be culled on Saturday.
“Worst ever” – 50,000 died in the heat
The extreme heat of the summer is believed to have claimed the lives of more than 50,000 people in European urban areas, according to new research.
Two-thirds of these deaths are thought to be attributable to climate change.
Researchers from Imperial College London and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine examined 854 urban areas across thirty countries—EU member states, as well as the United Kingdom, Norway, and Switzerland.
Using temperature data and models based on historical correlations between heat and mortality, they estimated the expected excess mortality resulting from heat in each area during the summers of 2000–2026. The findings align with official mortality statistics.
According to the researchers—who compared actual temperatures with those that would have been expected in the absence of greenhouse gas emissions—two-thirds of the deaths are due to climate change.
Clair Barnes, a researcher specializing in extreme weather and climate change at Imperial College London, describes the heat-related mortality this summer as the worst on record.
“These figures serve as a stark reminder that our warmer and more extreme summers are having an increasingly serious impact on public health,” she states in a press release.
Hundreds injured by typhoon in Taiwan
More than 500 people have been injured in Taiwan as Typhoon Champi swept through the region.
Although the eye of the storm did not pass directly over Taiwan, Champi has nonetheless had a severe impact on many residents.
280,000 households lost power, and one person died after being swept away by waves whipped up by the storm’s winds. Thousands have been evacuated, and trees and power lines have been brought down.
The typhoon is expected to weaken as it moves toward Japan and China. In Shanghai, tens of thousands have been evacuated, and some train services have been suspended in anticipation of Champi’s arrival.
Dozens of flights have been canceled across the region, including in Okinawa, Japan’s southernmost prefecture.
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