Poultry affected by avian flu – financial times

Health. For the first time, the Swedish poultry affected by avian influenza. The national veterinary institute takes a serious view of the incident, and now the crew are killed.

Two cases of bird flu have been found in Skåne, according to the analysis at the national veterinary institute (SVA).

one case, a wild bird, a pickle, which is found in the municipality of Vellinge and confirmed to carry the avian influenza type H5N8, the same type as in Denmark infected wild gulls, ducks and swans.

The second case, a värphönsbesättning outside of Helsingborg, is now isolated at the Swedish board of agriculture initiative, in anticipation of the crew should be killed.

EU law

The current virusvarianten does not infect people, but has infected wild birds in Sweden before. However, this is the first time that domestic birds affected, no DIFFICULTY, looking serious.

– Absolutely, not least because of the large consequences for the industry, and the affected ranchers. This will probably result in the board of Agriculture go out and recommend the breeders to further review their procedures, ” says Karl Ståhl, assistant statsepizootolog, at SVA.

Exactly what is the virus that hit the yard, you know not yet, more than that it is H5.

– But it doesn’t really matter. It is enough that it is H5 because then the start of the EU law to apply and that means that we need to kill the animal and put up restricted zones, ” says Karl Ståhl.

the Plant also need to undergo a full remediation to prevent further spread.

affected

Already, last week introduced the Swedish board of Agriculture level 2 for bird flu in Sweden. This means, among other things, that poultry must be kept indoors and, if it is not possible, be fenced outdoors, but are fed with feed and water indoors or under cover outdoors.

– We hope to be able to, and do everything in our power to put a stop to a major outbreak of avian flu, ” says Karin Åhl, smittskyddshandläggare at the Swedish board of Agriculture.

once before, in 2006, has a Swedish fågelbesättning been infected by bird flu. But it was a farm for the breeding of wild ducks in Kalmar county.

– Fågeluppfödarna in Skåne is hard hit right now, because there is an ongoing outbreak of newcastle disease. It is a very contagious disease and we have outbreaks of it every two years approximately, ” says Karl Ståhl.

the FACTS

does not Infect people

as late as in march last year discovered the same virus, H5N8, at the two dead mute swans in Stockholm.

H5N8 is a variant that does not infect people, only poultry. The virus, however, caused extensive damage in several fågelbesättningar across Europe.

In november 2014, there were outbreaks of H5N8 in a kalkonbesättning with 31 000 animals, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in northern Germany. All the animals were euthanized. At about the same time discovered the virus on a hönsgård with 150 000 animals in the Netherlands. A farm in the uk, Yorkshire, with approximately 6,000 ducks were also affected.

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