Re: H5N1 suspected in dead swans in Germany
Re: H5N1 suspected in dead swans in Germany
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Nuernberg (aho) - the national office for health and food security (LGL) in attaining determined an infection with the H5N1-Virus on today's Saturday, 23 June 2007, with further dead found water birds. Thereby a wildente, which ended at the Woehrder lake, concerns and a game goose around three further swans and, which was found dead at the silver lake. Altogether now city exists game birds guaranteed an infection with the "bird flu virus" with seven in the Nuernberger. The city Nuernberg and the veterinary centre Fuerth will furnish a restricted area as precautionary measure around the areas concerned and will prove the Nuernberger city as observation area. The Kadaver was sent to the national reference laboratory of the Friedrich Loeffler institute on the island Riems, in order to determine whether it concerns with the exciter the highly pathogene H5N1-Virus. The city Nuernberg and the veterinary centre Fuerth seized measures, which are intended after the game bird poultry plague protection regulation due to the further finds. At waters concerned warnings were set up. The environment is checked regularly for game birds ended. A restricted area is furnished by four kilometers of radius and an observation zone of ten kilometers of radius around the discovery sites and marked by describing.
The course of the border of the restricted area is along the roads at the zoo, to the climbing field, deer yard route, in the Weller, Bacher road, Olgastrasse, B14, Guenthersbuehler road, Native of Bayreuth road, beer way, Marienbergstrasse, Erlanger road, northwest ring B4R, Nopitschstrasse, elm tree road, Franconia route, Katzwangerstrasse, Julius release man route, Trierer road, customs office road, Breslauer road, Regensburger road. In the restricted area (4 km) long the prohibition of spending from poultry and in shank the animal by-products from bird attitudes, the prohibition of spending poultry, in shank birds held of other kinds and breeding eggs from a bird attitude, fresh meat, hackfleisch or separator meat, butcher certifications and meat preparing of poultry, in shank birds held of other kinds or of feather/spring game from the restricted area, coming, applies for birds held of other kinds starting from 23 June 2007 21 days. This does not apply to meat and meat preparing, which were transferred in the retail trade to consumers.
Keepers of an animal are committed to mats or other absorbent soil editions to the sicherstellung that at the in and exits of the stables or other locations, in or at which poultry is held are laid out and these with an effective disinfectant are soaked and with it kept damp always. In shank birds held of other kinds may not be released for the heightening of the game existence. Feather/spring game may be hunted only with permission of the city Nuernberg. Within restricted area convenient stable or other location, in which or at the poultry one holds, may not be entered by non-operating persons. This does not apply to the stable or other locations for caring for veterinary surgeon, its respective auxiliary persons as well as persons of the responsible authority the assigned the animal you fight.
Dogs and cats Dogs and cats may not run around in the restricted area freely. The owners have to guarantee this at any time. Offences against these regulations can be punished as irregularities with fine. In the observation area (radius of 10 kilometers) applies to the duration from 30 days to definition of the observation area: In shank birds held of other kinds may not be released for the heightening of the game existence. For the duration of 30 days feather/spring game may be hunted only with permission of the city Nuernberg. While the first 15 days after definition of the observation area poultry and in shank birds held of other kinds may be spent not from the observation area.
Dogs and cats In the observation area dogs and cats may run around freely. Public health authorities point out expressly that it concerns with the "bird flu" an animal epidemic. Under normal conditions humans infect themselves only extremely rarely with bird flu viruses. Birds concerned separate the viruses with body secretions, most highly are the concentration in the excrement humans can the exciter by inhalation of excrement-contaminated dust particle or by a lubrication infection over the hands take up. During most human illnesses, which arose mainly in Asia, so far only persons with very close contact were concerned to infected house poultry. In order to reduce the infection risk nevertheless to a minimum, no water birds should be touched or fed as precautionary measure. In green belts feeding of fish and water birds is anyway forbidden after the green belt statute. Also dog owners are urgently reminded of the Anleinpflicht.
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