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Wachenroth, Erlangen area 1. Wide of farm 2. Various of forensics 3. Various of trucks being disinfect 4. Cutaway to forensic talking to man 5. Truck leaving Hoechstadt, Erlangen area 6. Setup shot of Ottmar Fick, Chief Veterinarian of Erlangen area 7. SOUNDBITE (German) Ottmar Fick, Chief Veterinarian of Erlangen area: "It was discovered in poultry farm in Hoechstadt, in Erlangen area, during a routine control where some suspicion of bird flu arose. Those suspicions were confirmed this afternoon by the latest report from the Friedrich-Loeffler Institute on the island Riems." Wachenroth, Erlangen area 8. Police van leaving STORYLINE A cull was continuing at a poultry farm in southern Germany on Sunday after tests determined that some birds had died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu. The virus was detected in ducklings at the farm near Erlangen, in northern Bavaria. Some 160-thousand birds were being slaughtered as a precaution, authorities said. Authorities started with the slaughter of the 160-thousand birds at the farm on Saturday evening. A federal lab confirmed that the birds died of the "highly pathogenic" H5N1 variant, the state consumer protection ministry said. A ministry spokeswoman said more than 400 birds had died over a short period of time at the farm. Several cases of the virus have surfaced among wild birds in Germany this year. Last month, it was detected in a domestic goose in the east of the country. The H5N1 virus has killed at least 194 people, 83 of them in Indonesia, since it started ravaging poultry stocks across Asia in 2003, according to the World Health Organisation. Experts fear the virus will mutate into a form that spreads easily among humans, potentially sparking a pandemic. Currently, most human cases are linked to contact with infected birds. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/798a66b9bb7f4b9b59965e48c027d835 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork