Germany: September bird flu outbreaks

Published Oct 1, 2022

Tridge summary

On September 30, a poultry farm in Surwold, Emsland County, had a confirmed outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza virus, leading to the culling of over 2,000 birds. The local authorities have implemented preventive measures including the establishment of protection and surveillance zones to curb the spread of the virus. On September 12, a similar outbreak was reported in a turkey farm in Garrel, Cloppenburg district, with the Friedrich Loeffler Institute confirming the H5 virus. The livestock was culled, and the district of Cloppenburg has proposed a ban on turkeys in several municipalities to contain the outbreak.

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On September 30, the suspicion of avian influenza on a poultry farm was officially confirmed in the Surwold commune in Emsland County (Lower Saxony). About 700 geese, about 750 ducks and about 600 broilers were infected with the highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza virus. The animals are killed and the county makes a general ordinance containing preventive measures to prevent the spread of the virus. Again, the protection measures include the creation of a protection zone of approximately 3 km around the site where the explosion occurred and a surveillance zone of a radius of 10 km around the site of the explosion. There are seven commercial plants in the protection zone with over 190,000 sq m. poultry and 23 hobby farms with 415 birds. On September 12, an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza with H5 virus was detected in a turkey farm and the Friedrich Loeffler Institute (FLI) officially confirmed the outbreak in Garrel commune ...

Source: Farmer.pl