H5N1 returns to Germany

[Giuseppe]

Re: H5N1 returns to Germany

Highly pathogenic avian influenza, Germany [OIE - WAHID Interface]

[English PDF reports (LINK )]

Highly pathogenic avian influenza, Germany

Information received on 10/10/2008 from Mr Werner Zwingmann, Ministerialdirigent, "Leiter der Unterabteilung Tiergesundheit und Lebensmittelhygiene", Bundesministerium f?r Ern?hrung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz (BMELV) , Bonn, Germany

? Summary

Report type Immediate notification
Start date 09/10/2008
Date of first confirmation of the event 10/10/2008
Report date 10/10/2008
Date submitted to OIE 10/10/2008
Reason for notification Reoccurrence of a listed disease
Date of previous occurrence 28/01/2008
Causal agent Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus Serotype H5N1
Nature of diagnosis Laboratory (basic), Laboratory (advanced)
This event pertains to a defined zone within the country

? New outbreaks
Summary of outbreaks Total outbreaks: 1

* Outbreak Location and Affected population: SACHSEN (Markersdorf, Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis - Landkreis G?rlitz) :
In the establishment affected there are 800 geese, 550 ducks, 60 chicken and 24 turkeys.

Total animals affected: Species - Susceptible - Cases - Deaths - Destroyed - Slaughtered
* Birds - 1434 - 1 - 0 - 1434 - 0

Outbreak statistics: Species - Apparent morbidity rate - Apparent mortality rate - Apparent case fatality rate - Proportion susceptible animals lost*
* Birds - 0.07% - 0.00% - 0.00% - 100.00%

* Removed from the susceptible population through death, destruction and/or slaughter

? Epidemiology
Source of the outbreak(s) or origin of infection Unknown or inconclusive

? Epidemiological comments
There were no movements of animals into or out of the holding concerned within the last 21 days.
The detection of HPAI H5N1 was performed in relation to routine laboratory investigation.

? Control measures
Measures applied Control of wildlife reservoirs
Stamping out
Movement control inside the country
Screening
Zoning
Disinfection of infected premises/establishment(s)
Dipping / Spraying
Vaccination prohibited
No treatment of affected animals

Measures to be applied No other measures

? Diagnostic test results
Laboratory name and type Friedrich-Loeffler Institute (National laboratory)
Tests and results: Species - Test - Test date - Result
* Birds - polymerase chain reaction (PCR) - 10/10/2008 - Positive

? Future Reporting
The event is continuing. Weekly follow-up reports will be submitted.
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[HenryN]

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Markersdorf/G?rlitz/dpa. After the newest case of bird flu in Saxonia on Friday in a poultry yard in marker village with G?rlitz all 1400 ducks, geese, chickens and Puten were killed. The hochpathogene virus H5N1 was proven with a regular investigation in the existence, said the district administrator of the circle G?rlitz, Bernd long one (CDU) before journalists. ?For us it is now important to locate also the cause.? With the routine test in marker village on 2 October in each case 30 geese and ducks had been examined. A suspected case is thereupon more near examined. For the population exist no acute danger in any form, insured the G?rlitzer medical officer Christian OF Ziesch. Veterinarians with protective clothing and the ?emergency suit-case bird flu?. (Photo: DPA) Picture as E-Card dispatch the infected duck no remarkablenesses showed. The 800 geese, 550 ducks, 24 Puten and 60 putting hens were killed within two hours with carbon dioxide, said office veterinary surgeon Ralph of beautiful fields. With several animals referring to the bird flu virus were present. ?It was not only a duck?, said district administrator long one. In the periphery from three kilometers a restricted area was furnished. All 55 poultry owners with altogether 71,000 animals in this area were visited as a precaution. Besides give it an observation circle in the radius of ten kilometers. In the periphery of 50 kilometers the obligation is valid to hold poultry in the stable for first 21 days. Also Polish authorities would have to be informed. ?All necessary precaution measures are met?, said health minister Christine Clau? (CDU) according to a center division. They served the protection of the domestic existence. The police blocked the four-side yard concerned in marker village spaciously. 39 persons, the contact to the animals had, were examined, said medical officer Christian OF Ziesch. In addition the family and coworker of the poultry owner as well as 25 firefighters counted. With all a reduction at the throat was taken. On the results of analysis in the next days one count. The case of marker village is first in Germany in this year. The bird flu had been discovered last in December 2007 with poultry in Brandenburg. In a Saxonian utilizable animal existence the virus had emerged in April 2006, 22,000 animals in Wermsdorf to the west of Leipzig had been killed at that time last. The G?rlitzer district administration office furnished meanwhile a citizen telephone. Under the number 03585/441764 as well as 03585/441768 on Friday from 15.00 to 20,00 o'clock and on Saturday from 09.00 to 15,00 o'clock questions are answered to the bird flu. The virus H5N1 strikes above all chicken birds and Puten, in addition, Wassergefl?gel such as ducks and geese. Also humans can be infected with hygiene lacking at infected animals. A transmission from humans to humans was observed however only with extremely close contact, particularly in Asia.

http://www.mz-web.de/servlet/Conten...083806405&calledPageId=1013083806405&listid=0

 

[Giuseppe]

Re: H5N1 returns to Germany

Germany Kills 1,400 Fowl After First 2008 Bird Flu (Update1) [Bloomberg.com: Germany]

Germany Kills 1,400 Fowl After First 2008 Bird Flu (Update1)

By Naomi Kresge
Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) --

German authorities killed 1,400 domestic fowl after identifying the country's first case of avian influenza this year on a commercial farm in the town of Markersdorf, near the Polish border.


A duck tested positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu, Elke Reinking, a spokeswoman for Germany's Friedrich Loeffler Institute, said in a telephone interview today.

Tests confirmed that the animal was infected with the highly pathogenic form of the disease that spreads rapidly among birds, she said.

Authorities began killing poultry at 4 a.m. and have set up a three-kilometer (1.9 mile) quarantine, said Ralph Schreiber, a Health Ministry spokesman in the German state of Saxony.

The sick duck was found in an area with several poultry farms, including one with 70,000 animals, Schreiber said.

``The flu can appear again at any time, but it was a bit of a surprise to see it in a commercially raised animal,'' Reinking said.

The Friedrich Loeffler Institute is a center for animal health.

Avian flu was last found in Germany in December 2007 in chickens at a small hobby farm, she said.

There have been no reports of the disease in neighboring countries since March, when a wild duck tested positive in Switzerland.

How the duck caught the virus remains a mystery, Reinking said.

Authorities are testing all fowl in the quarantine area to see whether the disease has spread.

Pandemic
Health authorities have been monitoring the H5N1 strain of avian influenza for more than a decade for any sign that it is becoming as contagious as seasonal flu. While millions of birds have been infected, fewer than 400 people are reported to have contracted the illness, including 36 this year.

The world is closer to another influenza pandemic than at any time since 1968, when the last of the previous century's three pandemics occurred, according to the Geneva-based World Health Organization.

The H5N1 virus has spread to more than 60 countries and caused at least 6,500 poultry outbreaks since 2003. The H5N1 flu strain is known to have infected 387 people in 15 nations in the past five years, 245 of whom have died, according to the WHO.

To contact the reporter on this story: Naomi Kresge in Berlin nkresge@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: October 10, 2008 09:56 EDT
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<cite cite="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=anbjeVSZ43tU&refer=germany">Bloomberg.com: Germany</cite>

 

[HenryN]

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I believe FLI will soon announce more information on sequence analysis.

 

[HenryN]

Re: H5N1 returns to Germany

<TABLE style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><TBODY><TR><TD align=middle>Germany confirms outbreak of H5N1 bird flu -EU

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BRUSSELS, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Germany has informed European Union animalhealth experts of an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu, the EU's first case of thelethal strain of the contagious disease in poultry this year, the EuropeanCommission said on Friday. The outbreak occurred in the German state of Saxony, close to the borderwith Poland, the Commission said in a statement. "Strict movement controls are in place. Poultry must be kept indoors,gatherings of poultry and other birds are banned, and on-farm biosecuritymeasures are strengthened," it said. (Reporting by Jeremy Smith) Keywords: BIRDFLU EU/GERMANY tf.TFN-Europe_newsdesk@thomsonreuters.com</PRE>
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http://orange.advfn.com/news_Germany-confirms-outbreak-of-H5N1-bird-flu-EU_28652382.html</PRE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></P>

 

[Giuseppe]

Re: H5N1 returns to Germany

OIE Confirmation Report: http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=184855&postcount=21

 

[HenryN]

Re: H5N1 returns to Germany

Commentary

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/10100801/H5N1_Saxony_Fujian.html

 

[HenryN]

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Deadly bird flu virus found at German farm
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BRUSSELS : German authorities were culling poultry at a farm in Germany after the discovery of a case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, the European Commission announced on Friday.

It is the first case of the highly pathogenic avian influenza at a farm in the European Union this year, although in February there was a confirmed outbreak among wild birds in Britain.

The H5N1 strain which first emerged in Asia in 2003, has caused some 245 deaths in humans since then, with Indonesia and Vietnam among the worst hit countries, according to World Health Organisation figures.

Scientists fear that H5N1 will eventually mutate into a form that is much more easily transmissible between humans, triggering a global pandemic.

The German authorities informed Brussels on Thursday of the outbreak in Saxony, near the Polish border, and have set up the required "risk areas" around the outbreak, the commission said in a statement.

The German authorities have also culled all poultry on the farm including some 1,350 geese and ducks and 65 chickens and turkeys.

The commission said the Germans had applied all the necessary measures to deal with the outbreak, including setting up a three kilometre radius protection zone -- with very strict rule on entering and exiting of animals and people -- and a wider 10 kilometre surveillance zone.

- AFP /ls
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/381942/1/.html

 

[Giuseppe]

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09.10.2008

SMS - Gesundheit, Landwirtschaft/Forst
Verdacht von Influenza A-Virus in einem Nutzgefl?gelbestand

Am sp?ten Abend des 08.10.2008 wurde das S?chsische Staatsministerium f?r Soziales dar?ber informiert, dass bei einer Ente in einem Nutzgefl?gelbestand im Direktionsbezirk Dresden, Landkreis G?rlitz Influenza A Subtyp H5 N1 nachgewiesen wurde. Weitere Untersuchungen zur Feststellung, ob es sich um den gef?hrlichen (hochpathogenen) Typ handelt wurden eingeleitet.

Durch das Lebensmittel?berwachungs- und Veterin?ramt des Landkreises G?rlitz wurde daraufhin Gefl?gelpestverdacht festgestellt. Der Bestand wurde bereits durch den Amtstierarzt gesperrt. Die eventuelle Bestandst?tung und weitere Ma?nahmen werden vorsorglich vorbereitet.

Die durch hoch pathogene avi?re Influenzaviren der Subtypen H5 und H7 hervorgerufene Gefl?gelpest ist eine in der Tiermedizin seit Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts bekannte Infektionskrankheit, die bevorzugt H?hnerv?gel und Puten, aber auch Wassergefl?gel wie Enten und G?nse bef?llt. Diese ?Vogelgrippe?, wie sie in der ?ffentlichkeit bezeichnet wird, ist eine Tierseuche, welche bei Einschleppung in Nutzgefl?gelbest?nde hohe Verluste verursachen kann und deshalb fr?hzeitig Ma?nahmen erfordert.

www.sms.sachsen.de

http://www.medienservice.sachsen.de/news/32006
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09.10.2008

SMS - health, agriculture / forestry

Suspicion of influenza A virus in a Nutzgefl?gelbestand

Late on the evening of 08.10.2008 was the Saxon State Ministry of Social Affairs informed that a duck in a Nutzgefl?gelbestand Directorate in the Dresden district, county Goerlitz influenza A subtype H5 N1 has been demonstrated. Further investigation to determine whether it is dangerous (highly) type were launched.

By the Food and Veterinary Office of the District of Goerlitz was then suspected avian influenza detected. The stock was already covered by the official veterinarian locked. The eventual killing stock and other precautionary measures will be prepared.

The highly pathogenic avian influenza virus subtypes H5 and H7 avian influenza is caused in animal medicine since the end of the 19th Century-known infectious disease, the birds prefer chickens and turkeys, but also water birds such as ducks and geese attacks. This "bird flu", as they are in the public called, is an animal disease, which if introduced into Nutzgefl?gelbest?nde can cause heavy losses and therefore requires early action.

www.sms.sachsen.de
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http://www.medienservice.sachsen.de/news/32006

 

[Giuseppe]

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AVIAN INFLUENZA ? ANIMAL HEALTH ? GERMANY

[from European Centre of Diseases Prevention and Control (ECDC)]

10th October 2008


The German authorities have confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic A(H5N1) in a mixed poultry holding containing approximately 1500 poultry. All birds on the farm have been culled, and the containment measures taken in accordance with EU veterinary legislation.
Investigations into the source of the outbreak are ongoing.

ECDC Comment (2008-10-10):

This is the first case of A(H5N1) to be reported within the EU in 2008. Investigations into the source of the outbreaks are ongoing, and it is premature to speculate on what that might be.



However, there have been no cases reported from ongoing surveillance activities in wild birds in the EU, and hence there is little to suggest that the virus is widely disseminated within the EU at the current time.



Currently the H5N1 virus remains primarily an infection of birds and current evidence suggests that all H5N1 viruses identified to date remains poorly adapted to humans.



Hence the risks to public health remain very low.



However, it remains important for people who may be considered to be at risk, such as those who keep poultry, to take sensible precautions to minimise the already very low risk of infection.



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[AlaskaDenise]

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Commentary

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/10100801/H5N1_Saxony_Fujian.html

Commentary

HPAI H5N1 Confirmed in Saxony Germany
Recombinomics Commentary 17:25
October 10, 2008

In the establishment affected there are 800 geese, 550 ducks, 60 chicken and 24 turkeys.

There were no movements of animals into or out of the holding concerned within the last 21 days.

The detection of HPAI H5N1 was performed in relation to routine laboratory investigation.

With several animals referring to the bird flu virus were present. ?It was not only a duck?, said district administrator long one.

The above comments from the recently file OIE report, and the media translation described the HPAI H5N1 outbreak in Saxony (see satellite map) . The H5N1 PCR positive was initially found in one duck, but the media report indicates more birds have tested positive, and throat swabs have been collected with humans linked to the outbreak.

The finding of HPAI H5N1 increases the likelihood that the H5N1 will be clade 2.3 (Fujian) although the outbreak may be a re-emergence of the clade 2.2 (Qinghai / Uvs Lake strain), which was widespread in Europe, including Germany, last season.

Clade 2.3 was reported last spring for South Korea, Japan, and Russia, which included wild bird outbreaks in Japan and Russia, raising concerns of migration of clade 2.3 to Europe this season.

Sequence data on these new infections in Germany would be useful.


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[HenryN]

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No bird flu in Thuringia Because of a bird flu infection a poultry breeding enterprise in Saxonia had to be closed yesterday. In Thuringia is valid thereupon increased watchfulness, concrete cause for the concern do not exist however. ERFURT. 1400 chickens, ducks, Puten and geese were killed yesterday in the enterprise in marker village with G?rlitz, after one of the animals had been positively tested on the avian flu pathogen H5N1. The breeding enterprise was closed and furnished in the periphery by three kilometers a prohibited area. Danger for Thuringia does not exist however. Here against it no new infections are well-known, also give it no more restricted areas, explained Thomas Schulz, speaker of the Th?ringer of Social Department opposite this newspaper. " We still guess to feed and the contact of the own animals with wild birds avoid poultry only in the stable, concrete cause for intensified precautionary measures however nicht." see we; In order to prevent a spreading of the epidemic to Th?ringer of existence, a regular game bird monitoring was accomplished and announced and examined also to utilizable birds each dead animal. Also Holger Jungk, chairman of the large and water poultry breeding association Thuringia, sees no reason to the concern - and hopes that remains in such a way. " If the breeders must count due to this case again on intensified editions, that would be furchtbar." straight for the associations; The obligation often resulting from an epidemic suspicion to keep animals exclusive in the stable prevents good breeding results and threatens with it the existence of many poultry associations. But it assume it concerns with the yard in Saxonia an individual case, which does not have effects on Thuringia. " So far we do not have a message of the veterinary centre and in the case are a good Nachricht."

http://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de...schaft&region=National&auftritt=TA&dbserver=1

 

[HenryN]

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Marker village. Nearly one year is it ago that in Germany the bird flu arose last. Now the epizootic is in Saxonia again ausgeborchen. 1400 ducks and geese of the enterprise concerned were gekeult. With the virus it concerns also the variant dangerous for humans. In the case of a routine investigation in a poultry enterprise in marker village with G?rlitz one had been discovered at H5N1 gotten sick duck. After also with other animals positive samples had been taken, at the night to Friday then the entire existence of the enterprise was killed and furnished in a periphery by three kilometers a restricted area as well as in a radius by ten kilometers an observation zone. That means that 21 days may be transported for the time being long no animals or products and disinfection plants at the approach road ways of the enterprise were set up beyond that. Beyond that in the 10-kilometer zone further poultry enterprises are observed. In the case of doubt also these existence would have to be gekeult, like Elke Reinking, spokeswoman of the Bundesforschungsinstitus for animal health, described. Geese and ducks belong to the poultry races, which show first no remarkable symptoms. Photo: Gerd Lorenzen why again broke the bird flu virus off in Germany, at present from the experts still examined. ?That is a very complex and with the utmost care work?, like that Reinking. Wild birds potenzielle virus carriers are general. In addition, over the poultry trade H5N1 could be theoretically further-carried, since in particular infected ducks and geese show first no remarkable symptoms. A possible illegal trade is difficult after Elke Reinking ?to estimate?. The epizootic prepares problems also, because with the time change the virus. In principle the virus trunks H5 and H7 can release a bird flu. Reason to the panic does not exist however: ?The virus is transferred only by a close contact?, says Elke Reinking. ?The virus is transferred only by a very close contact.? Elke Reinking Locally the Saxonian Ministry of Health in co-operation with epidemiologists of the research institute examined whether it concerns with the bird flu virus the exciter, which can be dangerous for humans also. ?We differentiate Reinking between the pathogenen and the hochpathogenen variant?, thus. In the afternoon of yesterday then Ralph confirmed writer, speaker of the Ministry of Health in Saxonia that it concerns with the discovered virus the hochpathogene, thus the variant dangerous for humans. Since the experts in indicator village would however fast have reacted with the Keulung, also writer before overhasty panic warns. In North Rhine-Westphalia the entire year over wild birds and restaurant economics are observed and examined in a random sampling way. Straight one in the winter time is invested ?the monitoring so called? of the wild birds, as Sabine Raddatz, spokeswoman of the North-Rhine/Westphalia Department of the Environment describes, since for example game geese at the Niederrhein winter. The veterinary surgeons are sensitized generally, due to the recent cases of bird flu in Saxonia give it however for further precautions still no need.

http://www.derwesten.de/nachrichten/wp/2008/10/10/news-82590690/detail.html

 

[HenryN]

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</TD></TR><TR><TD>Sofia. Cases of H5N1 bird flu have been discovered in Germany; there is no risk for Bulgaria, chairman of the National Veterinary Medical Service Associate Professor Zheko Baychev told Focus News Agency.
The infected birds are in the federal state of Saxony, in the town of Gorlitz, on the border with Poland and the Czech Republic. There is a reservoir there. Some 800 wild ducks, 550 hen type birds and around 20 turkeys have been destroyed. The birds were diagnosed on Friday afternoon. The infection has already been localized; there is a 10-km safety zone, he added.
Tsvetana GEORGIEVA
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[HenryN]

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No FLI updates yet

http://www.fli.bund.de/1324.html

 

[Shiloh]

Re: H5N1 returns to Germany

Source: http://wiadomosci.wp.pl/kat,1342,ti...rypa,wid,10452864,wiadomosc.html?ticaid=16c3e

Google translation from Polish:

Lower Silesia in danger of avian influenza

On Thursday the H5N1 virus detected in ducks from the farm poultry in the village in the district Markersdorf Goerlitz. Preparations for the liquidation of poultry reared on the farm - hundreds of ducks and geese. Duck infected with the virus, the first this year in the case of Germany, the emergence of the virus. Previous reported in December 2007 in poultry in Brandenburg.
In connection with the detection of the virus in Germany close to the border with Poland, Kazimierz district veterinarian Szyposzyński on Friday issued a regulation "on the infected area and in danger of the occurrence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (...), how the marks of the area and prohibitions and orders in force in this area. "

As is clear from the regulation, in the affected area has banned inter alia, exporting and spreading litter and natural fertilizer poultry without the consent of a veterinarian, the movement of poultry and other birds living in captivity outside the threatened area for 21 days, the organization of hunting and harvesting wild birds, organizing trade fairs, shows and exhibitions.

In addition, district veterinary doctor ordered to draw up an inventory of remaining poultry farms, carry out checks on farms combined with a study of poultry, poultry separate button on the farm and carry out checks on vehicles carrying poultry and offal.

At the border crossing points and at the railway will be taught in Zgorzelec disinfection mats.

(jks)

 

[HenryN]

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Bird flu in the district G?rlitz Brussels, 11.10.2008: German authorities informed the European Commission about the fact that in a poultry yard in the Saxonian district G?rlitz a case was discovered by bird flu with suspicion on the highly sticking on variant H5N1. For clarifying, whether it actually concerns the virus HPAI H5N1 it was requested, laboratory samples. In the meantime it was confirmed that it concerns the virus HPAI H5N1. The poultry existence from 800 mast geese, 550 ducks, 60 chickens and 24 Truth?hnen was killed as a precaution over night. In agreement with the Community law all necessary measures were seized. After data of the information system TRACES from the district G?rlitz was dispatched in the last 30 days no living poultry to other member states.
http://www.umweltjournal.de/fp/archiv/AfA_naturkost/14769.php

 

[HenryN]

Re: H5N1 returns to Germany

FLI report from April, 2008

http://www.fli.bund.de/fileadmin/us...eitsgeschehen/avi_Flu/080424_lb_influenza.pdf

 

[HenryN]

Re: H5N1 returns to Germany

Sales ban for eggs from bird flu district - obligation to confine animals to their cages So far no further cases of bird flu in the circle G?rlitz G?rlitz - in the district G?rlitz gives it according to recent findings no further cases of bird flu. Neither district administration office nor Ministry of Health were well-known on Sunday new cases, were called it on DPA-inquire. The investigations ran however still. According to data of district administrator speaker Andreas Johne was the situation directly calm around the yard in marker village with G?rlitz, where in the past week with a duck the influenza virus was proven of the type H5N1, ?relatively ?. Approximately 1400 ducks and geese had been killed. From this Monday obligatorily the obligation to confine animals to their cages already ordered is valid for Johne on poultry in a periphery of 50 kilometers - to inside into the district Bautzen, thus. The surrounding yards of marker village may sell first no more eggs, the district administration office G?rlitz on Saturday had communicated. The sales ban is valid for yards from the restricted area and the observation area in the periphery of ten kilometers. Citizens, who bought in the past four weeks on the Markersdorfer yard eggs or meat, could these products besides with the veterinary centre examine let. Egg packing of the yard should be burned. In addition no poultry wastes or egg shells might be fed to chickens. With the killing of the animals from marker village samples had been taken by further poultry, which are still examined at present. If no further H5N1-infizierten of animals should be discovered, the prohibited area in the periphery by three kilometers after 21 days and the observation circle can be waived after 15 days, it were said. Marker village was the first case of bird flu in Germany in this year. The epizootic had been discovered last in December 2007 with poultry in Brandenburg. The virus H5N1 strikes above all chicken birds and Puten, in addition, Wassergefl?gel such as ducks and geese. (DPA)
http://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/artikel.asp?id=1964080

 

[Shiloh]

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Source: http://www.rynekzdrowia.pl/Aktualno...-ptasia-grypa-u-zachodnich-sasiadow,2195.html

Google tranlation:

(Poland) Communication from the Sanitary Inspectorate - avian flu in the western neighbors
* 2008-10-13 10:34:00

The State Sanitary Inspectorate, in connection with the detection in Germany, in the area of Goerlitz, on a farm poultry avian influenza virus H5N1 has taken action przeciwepidemiczne - Audit reported in a special message.

9 October (Thursday) Dolnośląski provincial veterinarian informed the duty operational Provincial Crisis Management Center (WCZK) in Wroclaw a statement in Germany, in the area of Goerlitz, on a farm poultry avian influenza virus H5N1.

In connection with those circumstances the State Sanitary Inspectorate staff immediately contacted the District Crisis Management Center in Zgorzelec, in order to take immediate steps to minimize risks in the area of the district zgorzeleckiego.

Have been strengthened patrols at the border, with particular emphasis on importation of fowl, fresh meat and other poultry products into the English.

Is now under way to determine whether at the farm in Germany, the Poles were employed and whether the meat from contaminated farms was exported to Poland. Through the local media is also shares information on the province of Lower Silesia.

More at:

http://www.gis.gov.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=663&Itemid=50