HAMBURG: About 6,700 geese and geese are to be slaughtered after an outbreak of the extremely pathogenic H5N1 chook flu on a farm in east Germany, authorities stated on Thursday (Dec 7).
The illness was confirmed on a farm in Schonberg within the jap state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the state agriculture ministry stated.
A number of different chook flu instances in Germany have been reported in current weeks.
Chook flu, which has led to the culling of a whole lot of tens of millions birds prior to now years, normally strikes in Europe throughout autumn and winter, usually with an infection unfold by wild birds.
It has lately been detected on farms in a number of nations together with France, the Netherlands and Belgium.
France raised the danger stage of chook flu to ‘excessive’ from ‘average’ on Tuesday after new instances of the illness have been detected, forcing poultry farms to maintain birds indoors to stem the unfold of the extremely contagious virus.