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Avian flu or lightning?
By Georg Schalk
G?nzburg - In the G?nzburg region, since yesterday goes back to the fear that it could be the avian flu outbreak. A fisherman discovered on Sunday morning in a moss forest lakes north of G?nzburg several dead wild geese. He alerted the police, the Veterinary Office and the fire brigade verst?ndigte.
By the late afternoon, more than 20 dead animals in the water and the shore area. They were in plastic bags were recovered. The carcasses are today, after Oberschleissheim near Munich in the National Office for Health and Food Safety market. There, they will investigate and find out where the wild goose perishes.
According to the two doctors of the Veterinary Office G?nzburg, Dr. Franz Schmid and Max Schubert, dead animals were the one or two days at one of the moss forest lakes. With the help of the police and the volunteer fire department G?nzburg, against 13 hours with three vehicles and two boats ausr?ckte, bargen the experts more than 20 dead wild geese. After Discovery of the fisherman in the morning searched the use of force in the afternoon several hours the entire lake, the island in the lake, and the side arms after dead animals.
Whether in fact the bird flu has broken out, should the investigations in the next few days. On location was not excluded that in the two days before the thunderstorm lightning set in a blow many animals got killed. "At this place, lightning strikes more often," said a police official.
Schmid, the head of the Veterinary Office, had in June last year before the panic warned in space after Nuremberg cases of the dangerous H5N1 virus emerged. Naturally, the bird flu could occur anywhere, the county was still far away, he said at the time. "We must not weigh in complete security, but also not the same horror tremble before," was his maxim.
Until May 2007, is also in the district G?nzburg called restriction zones. Around the Upper Egger G?nzstausee were within a radius of 500 metres additional requirements for poultry farmers. They were, but again, because the authority no longer needs to has seen.
14.04.08
http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de..._arid,1206933_regid,2_puid,2_pageid,4497.html
credits GSGS
Avian flu or lightning?
By Georg Schalk
G?nzburg - In the G?nzburg region, since yesterday goes back to the fear that it could be the avian flu outbreak. A fisherman discovered on Sunday morning in a moss forest lakes north of G?nzburg several dead wild geese. He alerted the police, the Veterinary Office and the fire brigade verst?ndigte.
By the late afternoon, more than 20 dead animals in the water and the shore area. They were in plastic bags were recovered. The carcasses are today, after Oberschleissheim near Munich in the National Office for Health and Food Safety market. There, they will investigate and find out where the wild goose perishes.
According to the two doctors of the Veterinary Office G?nzburg, Dr. Franz Schmid and Max Schubert, dead animals were the one or two days at one of the moss forest lakes. With the help of the police and the volunteer fire department G?nzburg, against 13 hours with three vehicles and two boats ausr?ckte, bargen the experts more than 20 dead wild geese. After Discovery of the fisherman in the morning searched the use of force in the afternoon several hours the entire lake, the island in the lake, and the side arms after dead animals.
Whether in fact the bird flu has broken out, should the investigations in the next few days. On location was not excluded that in the two days before the thunderstorm lightning set in a blow many animals got killed. "At this place, lightning strikes more often," said a police official.
Schmid, the head of the Veterinary Office, had in June last year before the panic warned in space after Nuremberg cases of the dangerous H5N1 virus emerged. Naturally, the bird flu could occur anywhere, the county was still far away, he said at the time. "We must not weigh in complete security, but also not the same horror tremble before," was his maxim.
Until May 2007, is also in the district G?nzburg called restriction zones. Around the Upper Egger G?nzstausee were within a radius of 500 metres additional requirements for poultry farmers. They were, but again, because the authority no longer needs to has seen.
14.04.08
http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de..._arid,1206933_regid,2_puid,2_pageid,4497.html
credits GSGS
