Israel: 2024 Avian flu in wild birds

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Source: https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wel...article-784105

Bird flu spotted in Israel again as outbreaks intensify globally
Since 2021, Europe and the Americas have been suffering from a nearly continuous outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza.
By TZVI JOFFRE
JANUARY 28, 2024 22:35

Two gulls were found infected with the H5N1 subtype of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) near Binyamina-Givat Ada and Holon last week, the Agriculture Ministry said on Saturday.

The ministry added that at the beginning of January, a common teal was found infected with the virus in Bet Halevi, near Netanya, and a peregrine falcon was found infected near Hulata in northern Israel.

The outbreaks are the latest reported this season in Israel. Several other outbreaks were reported late last year, with the first outbreak of the season reported in September at a petting zoo including over 200 peacocks, geese, ducks, guinea fowls, chickens, doves, and parakeets in Sde Ya'akov in northern Israel...

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Source: https://www.calcalist.co.il/local_ne...icle/hyf5edws6

Dozens of crane carcasses were found: fear of an outbreak of a violent strain of bird flu in the Hula Valley
Dying cranes and crane carcasses have been found in the last few weeks in the Hula Valley and its surroundings. A laboratory test revealed that it is a bird flu virus of the especially virulent and contagious strain - H5N1
Shani Ashkenazi
13:07, 12.02.24

Dozens of crane carcasses alongside dozens of dying cranes have been found in the last two weeks in the Hula Valley and its surroundings, and now there is a growing fear of an outbreak of a virulent strain of bird flu in the area and its spillover into livestock farms.

A laboratory test carried out on the carcass of a crane found in the flames of Bashan revealed that it was a bird flu virus of the especially virulent and contagious strain - H5N1. Although it is a particularly contagious disease that may endanger the birds in the area - the authorities have not yet begun to collect the carcasses of the cranes from the agricultural areas in the Hula Valley area, even many days after the death wave began. This is despite the lessons of the past and repeated requests from KKL-Junk and the Society for the Protection of Nature on the subject...