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11-16-2014, 10:22 PM #1
Bird flu outbreak reported on British duck farm
Bird flu outbreak reported on British duck farm
- POSTED: 17 Nov 2014 10:09
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Britain on Sunday (Nov 17) reported an outbreak of bird flu at a duck breeding farm in Yorkshire, England. A restriction zone has been set up around the farm and culling has begun.
Ducks at a poultry market. (Photo: AFP/File/Patrick Lin)
LONDON: Britain on Sunday (Nov 17) reported an outbreak of bird flu at a duck breeding farm in northern England but said that the risk to public health was "very low". A restriction zone has been set up around the farm and culling has begun, said a spokeswoman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
"We have confirmed a case of avian flu on a duck breeding farm in Yorkshire," the spokeswoman said. "The public health risk is very low and there is no risk to the food chain," she said.
Avian influenza is fatal for chickens, and poses a health threat to humans, who can become sickened by handling infected poultry. The H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed more than 400 people, mainly in Southeast Asia, since first appearing in 2003. Another strain of bird flu, H7N9, has claimed more than 170 lives since emerging in 2013.
The British official did not specify which exact strain was detected at the farm in Yorkshire.
Dutch officials earlier on Sunday banned the transport of poultry in the Netherlands after the discovery of a highly infectious strain of bird flu which could jump to humans. The "highly pathogenic" form of avian influenza discovered at a farm in the centre of the country is very dangerous to birds and "contamination can occur from animals to humans," the Dutch government said in a statement.
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11-16-2014, 10:27 PM #2
Bird flu discovery at Dutch chicken farm raises alarm
USA TODAY NETWORKCBS, wtsp.com12:16 p.m. EST November 16, 2014
(Photo: GUILLAUME SOUVANT AFP/Getty Images)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The Dutch government has banned the transport of poultry and eggs throughout the country after confirming an outbreak of bird flu at a chicken farm.
The Ministry for Economic Affairs said Sunday the outbreak is deadly to poultry and can also be transmitted to humans. Spokesman Jan van Diepen said the exact strain of bird flu has not yet been established.
All 150,000 chickens at the farm in Hekendorp, 40 miles south of Amsterdam, were being slaughtered. It was not clear how the farm became infected.
As well as halting the movement of poultry, other birds and eggs nationwide for 72 hours, the government is imposing other restrictions, including banning the transport of byproducts such as poultry manure and hay that have been used in poultry farms.
China has been battling a new strain of the deadly bird flu virus -- H7N9. Earlier this year, officials said it killed dozens.
Some studies suggest the new bird flu is jumping directly to people from poultry at live bird markets, including an April 25 study in The Lancet. Cases have slowed down since Chinese authorities began shutting down such markets. But it's unclear exactly what kind of exposure is needed for humans to catch the virus and very few animals have tested positive for it. Unlike the last bird flu strain to cause global concern, H5N1, the new strain doesn't appear to make birds sick and may be spreading silently in poultry populations.
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