Infected birds to be destroyed Saturday morning

The process of destroying bird flocks infected with the lethal H5 bird flu virus will begin at seven a.m. Saturday at Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha and Kibbutz Holit. The Health and Environment Ministries will brief the workers who are slated to kill the poultry, and by 10 a.m. trucks will begin loading the dead poultry, Channel 2 reported.