A dangerous form of bird flu spreads quickly in Poland

Several outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 flu have been reported in poultry farms in Poland, which raise a total of 650,000 birds, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said, according to Agrointel. An outbreak of ASF broke out in the Plovdiv region The spread of bird flu in the fall is due to migrating wild birds coming from Asia to Europe. Five outbreaks of bird flu have already been detected in Poland - four of them on turkey farms and one on a chicken farm. Later, another outbreak was registered - on a farm in the western part of the country, where turkeys and geese are raised. So far, Polish authorities have not detected the transmission of the bird flu virus to humans. Some of the measures to deal with the situation include the destruction of the birds. Statistics show that Poland is the largest producer of poultry in the European Union. According to official figures, about five million birds have already been slaughtered. The OIE called on its 180 ...