Following an outbreak of bird flu in the central state of Guanajuato, Mexico to slaughter 486,000 chickens, according to officials.

Authorities launched preventive measures, testing nearby farms to check if the outbreak had spread elsewhere.
Last year, a bird flu outbreak in the western state of Jalisco forced farmers to slaughter 22 million hens, sparking an egg crisis in Mexico, the world's top consumer of eggs per capita.
Source-AFP