Two more bird flu outbreaks in Hierden, Netherlands
Netherlands
Published Jun 10, 2022
Tridge summary
Een pluimveehouderij met honderdduizend eenden en een bedrijf met zesduizend eenden en 8.300 leghennen in het Gelderse Hierden zijn getroffen door de vogelgriep. De besmetting kwam aan het licht door een screening na de uitbraak van vogelgriep bij eenden in Hierden op 7 juni.
Original content
One of the companies was also hit by bird flu on February 4. Both poultry farms are being culled by the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority to prevent further spread. In the area of 1 kilometer around the infected duck farm in Hierden, there are three other poultry farms, one of which is the one that was culled on 7 June. It also concerns a poultry farm with meat ducks and laying hens. That company has now also been tested positive and is being culled. The third company has not yet been affected. The third company from the 1 kilometer zone was negative in the screening and has had no direct contact with the infected company and will be blocked, sampled for bird flu and intensively monitored daily for, among other things, the health of the animals. There are no other poultry farms in the 3 kilometer zone around the infected duck farm. There are 21 companies in the 10 kilometer zone, for which the transport ban has been in effect since the contamination of the company ...
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