hundreds of thousands of chickens have had to be culled to stop the disease spreading amongst captive birds. stephanie prentice reports. it wasn t meant to be their final resting place but these birds migrating to africa didn t make it out of israel s hula valley after a strain of bird flu took hold of the group. translation: there was no other event of this magnitude in israel. the cranes come from the north, from russia. in october they already identified the bird flu in europe and on their way to africa, about 50,000 cranes stopped here to rest and they brought the disease. those carefully disposing of the bodies estimate they ve cleared away around 5,000 so far, declaring this nature reserve off limits in case of human transmission. prime minister naftali bennett says he s working on a more robust plan after local media reported that children may have touched the dead birds and contributed to the spread of the flu. and fears about that spread have led to preventative cullings, wi
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hundreds of thousands of chickens have had to be culled to stop the disease spreading amongst captive birds. stephanie prentice reports. it wasn t meant to be their final resting place but these birds migrating to africa didn t make it out of israel s hula valley after a strain of bird flu took hold of the group. translation: there was no other event . of this magnitude in israel. the cranes come from the north, from russia. in october they already identified the bird flu in europe and on their way to africa, about 50,000 cranes stopped here to rest and they brought the disease. those carefully disposing of the bodies estimate they ve cleared away around 5,000 so far, declaring this nature reserve off limits in case of human transmission. prime minister naftali bennett says he s working on a more robust plan after local media reported that children may have touched the dead birds and contributed to the spread of the flu. and fears about that spread have led to preventative cullings, wi