More than 15 million chickens have been culled to stop the spread of influenza in Holland.
The action, which has wiped out a tenth of the country's total flock, was taken to save Europe from a potentially devastating chicken 'flu epidemic.
So far about 66 people have suffered mild eye infections from the chicken virus, New Scientist magazine has reported.
On Easter Saturday it was reported that one man had died from the viral infection. A Dutch veterinarian has died of pneumonia after catching the poultry disease bird flu.
The 57-year-old man died on Thursday in the southern city of Den Bosch, the Health Ministry said. He fell ill two days after working on a farm infected with bird flu, or avian virus.
"Because the bird flu virus was detected in the lungs and there is no other possible clinical explanation, there are strong indications that the man died as a result of the bird flu virus," the Health Ministry said in a statement.
