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In Lower Saxony, there is a suspected bird flu. Such information HAZ confirmed a spokesman for the district Cloppenburg. Affected was a stall with 20,000 turkeys in the north of the region.
Cloppenburg. "It has not been established that it is highly pathogenic," the spokesman said. The State Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety and the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut are instructed to verify the suspicion. Up to a concrete result should also No animals are killed. The district will declared the surveillance zone Starting Tuesday or Wednesday, the county spokesman said. Then, no more animal transport in the field may be carried out.
Case in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
In early November, the virus had occurred in a turkey operation in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Re: Germany - HP H5N8 bird flu confirmed in Lower Saxony
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Status: 12.16.2014
First bird flu case in Lower Saxony confirmed
It is clear that is on a Putenhof in Lower Saxony, a Avian influenza virus type H5N8 has been detected. This was confirmed by the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut. But is still unclear, which strain of subtype on a farm in Bar?el (district of Cloppenburg) has occurred. The variant of subtype determines the hazard of the Virus. More detailed information will be announced during the morning. The approximately 20,000 animals on the farm in Bar?el would now be "killed humanely," said a spokesman for the Ministry of Agriculture.
Re: Germany - HP H5N8 bird flu confirmed in Lower Saxony
"Dangerous" >>> dangerous for poultry, not for humans so far.
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12.16.2014
Dangerous variant of bird flu confirmed
The dangerous variant of Avian influenza H5N8 has been detected in Lower Saxony. It was the highly pathogenic avian influenza subtype informed of Lower Saxony Agriculture Minister Christian Meyer (Green) on Tuesday afternoon.
On 16.12.2014 the FLI confirmed highly pathogenic avian infection with influenza virus (HPAI) H5N8 from Subytp in a turkey stock with around 20,000 animals in the district of Cloppenburg. The competent authorities in Lower Saxony have initiated prevention and control measures and investigations on the registration of cause. The FLI participates on request to the epidemiological outbreak investigations.
The risk assessment of FLI on avian flu from 11.25.2014 is not changed by the new outbreak. Accordingly continue to recommend that the stabling of poultry risk-based, at least for poultry farms that are located in regions with a high density of wild birds or near wild bird resting places to order. In addition, the biosecurity measures in poultry farms should be strictly adhered to.
