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

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.