The Department of Agriculture said a 3km protection zone had been installed around the affected commercial turkey flock. File photograph

Emergency restriction measures have been put in place around a commercial turkey flock in Co Carlow following an outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu.

On Tuesday, the Department of Agriculture said a 3km protection zone had been installed around the holding, as well as a 10km surveillance zone.

Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon said the avian influenza H5N1 disease “poses no food safety risk to consumers of well-cooked poultry products, i

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