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A virulent bird flu virus has spread to 55 poultry farms in Bulgaria prompting the veterinary authorities to announce a cull of some 430,000 birds since it was first detected in the middle of December, agriculture minister Dessislava Taneva said…
As part of the surveillance within the protection zone established due to previous outbreak in wild birds clinical signs were discovered. Quarantine measures in protection and surveillance zones are ongoing. Courtesy of oie.int
Workers at a world-famous Dorset wildlife centre are coming to terms with the death of 80 swans in a bird flu outbreak. Since late December, 80 swans have died at Abbotsbury Swannery near Weymouth. Abbotsbury Tourism general manager…
The Chilean company Agrosuper reported the presence of a strain of bird in one of its plants flu turkeys, but said in a statement that no infected humans. According Agrosuper, the H7 flu strain was detected “early form” in…
Over 20,000 chickens have been exterminated in Taiwan amid a bird flu outbreak, the Bureau of Animal and Plant Inspection and Quarantine (BAPHIQ) has announced. BEIJING (Sputnik) – A decision to put 23,000 chickens to death at a farm…
Hundreds of thousands of ducks are to be culled in three areas of France following a severe outbreak of bird flu. The measure will cover all free range ducks, plus geese, in the Gers, Landes and Hautes-Pyrenees areas. …
China health authorities confirmed a new case of a man being infected by the H7N9 strain of avian influenza, state news agency Xinhua said late on Saturday. According to Xinhua, a 53-year-old man is being treated in hospital in…
More than 1,000 wild birds, mostly geese, have been found dead in the Mighan wetland in central Iran, the environmental protection organisation told state news agency IRNA on Monday. IRNA said 63,000 chickens, along with 800,000 fertilised eggs and…
The Hokkaido prefectural government on Friday announced the first case of a highly virulent strain of bird flu virus in poultry in Japan’s northernmost island prefecture. With a highly pathogenic H5 strain confirmed in a detailed analysis, the Hokkaido…
An outbreak of bird flu has been confirmed at a farm with 5,000 turkeys near Louth in Lincolnshire. The birds have been affected with the virulent H5N8 strain of the disease. A 3km protection zone and a 10km…
