Bird flu continues to spread in the Czech Republic. Veterinarians have discovered a new outbreak

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Bird flu continues to spread in the Czech Republic. Veterinarians have discovered a new outbreak
Bird flu
Source: TV Nova
Jan Houška
Yesterday 13:59


Veterinarians discovered another outbreak of bird flu in the Czech Republic, this time in small-scale poultry farming in the Strakonice region. This is the fourth case this year.

The new fireplace is located in small poultry farming in the village of Katowice in the Strakonice region in the South Bohemian region. As in previous cases, according to veterinarians, farmed poultry is likely to have become infected with wild waterfowl.

"Laboratory tests of the State Veterinary Institute in Prague in dead poultry confirmed avian influenza of subtype H5. The remaining poultry in breeding will be killed. Poultry in breeding was in contact with wild ducks living on the river Otava, which directly borders the breeding. In addition, the breeder provided poultry. from a nearby river, "said Petr Vorl?ček, a spokesman for the State Veterinary Administration.

Bird flu has appeared in two other places in southern Bohemia
Bird flu continues to spread throughout the Czech Republic! He is already in another region


In the following days, veterinarians will define a three-kilometer protection zone and a surveillance zone with a radius of ten kilometers around the new outbreak. Extraordinary veterinary measures will be announced in these zones. As part of these measures, the movement of poultry to and from the zones will be restricted and inventories of poultry farms will be carried out.


The last outbreak of bird flu in the Czech Republic was discovered on February 3 in the village of Ronov nad Doubravou in the Chrudim region in the Pardubice region. The breeder reported the death of one rooster and two hens through a private veterinarian to the State Veterinary Administration.


"Avian influenza viruses are common in wild birds, more commonly in aquatic. Influenza A viruses, subtypes H5 and H7 are at risk. Highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses, particularly H5N1, can cause extensive losses in domestic poultry. It has not yet been demonstrated. transmission of viruses from wild birds to humans, "informs the State Veterinary Administration.

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Bird flu has spread to the Highlands, affecting large-scale poultry farming
Yesterday 16:01


Bird flu has spread to the sixth region, the new outbreak is in Horn? Cerekev in the Pelhřimov region in the Vysočina Region. This is the first large-scale breeding with 300 poultry affected this year. The breeder reported the deaths of about 60 hens and geese to veterinarians in one day. How the infection got into breeding is the subject of an investigation, said the spokesman of the State Veterinary Administration (SVS) Petr Vorl?ček.

The remaining hens, turkeys, geese and ducks will be killed by veterinarians in the outbreak, and their bodies will then be disposed of harmlessly. It will also set out a three-kilometer and ten-kilometer band, where conditions will be tightened.

"Extraordinary veterinary measures will be announced in these zones. Within them, the movement of poultry to and from the zones will be limited and inventories of poultry farms will be made, ”said Vorl?ček.

This is the sixth focus, the previous one was revealed in southern and central Bohemia and in the Pardubice and Pilsen regions. The disease was found in wild birds in the Liberec region and in southern Bohemia. The disease is dangerous for birds, it is not transmitted to humans.

Veterinarians warn that in farms where birds cannot be housed indoors, the risk of contamination of water, feed and bedding by wild bird droppings should be reduced.

As in the Czech Republic, the H5N8 subtype was detected in most European outbreaks, and the H5N5 form also occurred in Germany. Since the beginning of the year, highly pathogenic influenza has been confirmed in 488 outbreaks across Europe, which is more than last year.

In the Czech Republic, bird flu appeared last year, when veterinarians had to slaughter around 13,000 birds. It also occurred here in 2017, when it was necessary to spend 98,000 birds, mostly in commercial farms.

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Bird flu is already in seven regions. Another outbreak was confirmed in the Uhersk? Hradi?t? region
Yesterday
The twelfth outbreak of bird flu was confirmed in the hitherto unaffected region, in breeding in Auschwitz in the Zl?n Region. Over the weekend, vets spent four hundred poultry there. Outbreaks in farms are thus in seven regions, ie in every second.


The focus in the Zl?n Region is the second, which is not in small-scale breeding. "The breeder reported the death of twelve birds out of a total of over four hundred. These were hens, geese, ducks and turkeys, "said Petr Vorl??ek, a spokesman for the State Veterinary Administration (SVS), about the Auschwitz outbreak. The laboratory subsequently confirmed the H5N8 influenza subtype. Veterinarians will demarcate zones around the outbreak, where stricter conditions for breeders will apply.

"As in the previous cases, a three-kilometer protection zone and a surveillance zone with a radius of ten kilometers will be defined and emergency veterinary measures will be declared in these zones. In particular, the movement of poultry to and from the zones will be restricted and inventories of poultry farms will be made, "added the spokesman of the State Veterinary Administration.

Half of the regions are already affected

Outbreaks in farms are now in seven regions, in addition to the Zl?n region, also in the Central Bohemian, Moravian-Silesian, South Bohemian, Pardubice and Plze? regions and in the Vyso?ina region. The disease has also been confirmed in wild birds in the Liberec, Olomouc, Zl?n and ?st? regions and in Prague. Newly also for two swans on Chomoutovsk? lake near Olomouc and for one swan in Hynkov near Olomouc.

Last week, it appeared in the Zl?n Region with a swan by the Novovesk? gravel lakes in the cadastre of Ostro?sk? Nov? Ves in the Uhersk? Hradi?t? region. According to Vorl??ek, it was also newly confirmed in a dead swan, which was found on St??brn? jezero near Opava.

Poultry farm
The Agrarian Chamber previously pointed out that breeders in Czech commercial farms adhere to high standards of biological safety. According to her spokeswoman Barbora P?nkov?, the number of flu outbreaks in Czech small farms is growing, which has an economically significant impact on commercial farms.

Veterinarians recommend keeping poultry indoors

Veterinarians recommend small poultry farmers to keep it indoors and protect it from contact with wild birds. "At the same time, we urge citizens not to collect birds in this area in case of finding dead wild birds in this area, but to inform the locally competent regional veterinary administration about this fact," said ZSn?k Semer?d, the central director of SVS.

In the Czech Republic, bird flu, apart from last year, when veterinarians had to slaughter around 137,000 birds, appeared ten years later in 2017. At that time, 98,000 birds had to be killed, mostly in large farms. There were almost forty outbreaks in the country.

The disease is dangerous for birds, so far it was not thought to be transmitted to humans. However, in February, Russia announced that it had recorded the first transmission of a strain of the bird flu virus (H5N8) to humans. According to the Consumer Health Authority, Rospotrebnadzor is the first disease of its kind to be detected in the world. According to Gabriela Dlouh?, secretary of the Agrarian Chamber, consumers do not have to worry, the transmission of the disease has never been proven from person to person or from processed poultry to humans.