EU: The European Commission extends all prevention measures caused by bird flu until September 2025

Published 2024년 9월 16일

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The European Commission has extended its measures to prevent avian influenza until September 2025 due to concerns about new outbreaks, publishing modified regulations in the Official Journal of the EU. These measures, aimed at limiting the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza, include the establishment of protection and surveillance zones in France and other affected countries. The extension of these measures is in response to the risk of the disease spreading through migratory wild birds. In other animal health news, Sweden has reported its first case of the bluetongue virus in a dairy cow in Uddevalla, 14 years since the country's last outbreak in 2010. The virus, transmitted by mosquitoes, affects domestic and wild ruminants.

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The European Commission has extended measures to prevent avian influenza until September 2025 in view of the growing risk of new outbreaks, while updating the measures established in France. The Official Journal of the European Union (EU) has published this Monday an implementing decision of the Commission modifying the emergency measures related to outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in certain European countries. Specifically, the annex determining the protection and surveillance zones in France, as well as the measures applicable in them, has been modified following the latest outbreak of avian influenza in its territory.