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Over 60 personer vil torsdag delta på en stor fugleinfluensa-øvelse på Jæren i regi av Mattilsynet.
...in the same municipality (coincidentally?) where a dozen dead ducks were found not to have died from bf back in March:
Norway tests dead ducks for H5N1 bird flu
Thu Mar 9, 2006 10:16 AM GMT
OSLO (Reuters) - Norway is testing two ducks for the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu after finding 12 birds dead in the same area, the Norwegian Food Safety Authority said on Thursday.
Neighbouring Sweden reported cases of the H5N1 avian flu last month but Norway has found no cases despite dozens of tests. Wednesday's find in Jaeren, southwest Norway, was the largest discovery of dead birds in one place.
But the birds had not all died at roughly the same time as might be typical in a flu outbreak -- only two of the ducks had died recently enough to be tested for the virus.
"Last night two dead and one sick duck were found," the Food Safety Authority said in a statement. "Nearby there were relatively fresh remains of 10 other birds."
"We'll have the first test results today, and that will give us a good indication. But it takes up to 24 hours to confirm if the birds had the aggressive variant, H5N1," Eivind Lien, a senior adviser at the agency, told Reuters.
Incidentally, the Norwegian authorities have already had at least one culling test run -- back in March they gassed 2000 chickens:
Over 60 personer vil torsdag delta på en stor fugleinfluensa-øvelse på Jæren i regi av Mattilsynet.
...in the same municipality (coincidentally?) where a dozen dead ducks were found not to have died from bf back in March:
Norway tests dead ducks for H5N1 bird flu
Thu Mar 9, 2006 10:16 AM GMT
OSLO (Reuters) - Norway is testing two ducks for the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu after finding 12 birds dead in the same area, the Norwegian Food Safety Authority said on Thursday.
Neighbouring Sweden reported cases of the H5N1 avian flu last month but Norway has found no cases despite dozens of tests. Wednesday's find in Jaeren, southwest Norway, was the largest discovery of dead birds in one place.
But the birds had not all died at roughly the same time as might be typical in a flu outbreak -- only two of the ducks had died recently enough to be tested for the virus.
"Last night two dead and one sick duck were found," the Food Safety Authority said in a statement. "Nearby there were relatively fresh remains of 10 other birds."
"We'll have the first test results today, and that will give us a good indication. But it takes up to 24 hours to confirm if the birds had the aggressive variant, H5N1," Eivind Lien, a senior adviser at the agency, told Reuters.
Incidentally, the Norwegian authorities have already had at least one culling test run -- back in March they gassed 2000 chickens: