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Australia - Low path H5 bird flu discovered at Victorian duck farm

Gert van der Hoek

Gert van der Hoek

In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
Bird flu discovered at Victorian duck farm

by: By Ashley Gardiner

From: Herald Sun

January 27, 2012 5:36PM

- Duck farm quarantined following the detection of bird flu

- Avian influenza "not a risk to the wider community"

- Ducks will be destroyed to prevent disease spreading

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A COMMERCIAL duck farm northwest of Melbourne has been quarantined following the detection of bird flu.

The Department of Primary Industries has said it is a low pathogenic subtype of avian influenza, and not a risk to the wider community.
It was detected during routine tests.

Chief veterinary officer Andrew Cameron said the virus was relatively harmless.

“But we do not want to take the risk it could linger in bird populations and mutate overtime to a more virulent strain,” Dr Cameron said.


Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national/bir...rm/story-e6frfkvr-1226255590059#ixzz1kdyAOV1d
 
Re: Australia - Low path H5 bird flu discovered at Victorian duck farm

Chief Veterinary Officer?s Avian Influenza Update

27 January 2012

The Department of Primary Industries (DPI) has quarantined a commercial duck farm in two locations north-west of Melbourne after birds there tested positive to Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza (LPAI).

DPI Chief Veterinary Officer, Dr Andrew Cameron said analytical tests carried out at the Australian Animal Health Laboratory at Geelong, Victoria, had given a positive response to low pathogenic H5 subtype avian influenza virus, prompting authorities to act immediately.

This low pathogenic subtype of avian influenza is not the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus affecting poultry and humans throughout much of Asia. The wider community is not at risk from this incident.?

Dr Cameron has said, ?The virus is relatively harmless now, but we do not want to take the risk it could linger in bird populations and mutate to a more virulent strain.?

The farm has been placed under strict quarantine and no birds, eggs, meat or associated equipment can be taken off the property.

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thanks to Mike Coston
 
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