Chook flu continues to unfold throughout the EU
8 November 2024
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France has stepped up its hen flu danger evaluation to ‘excessive’ from ‘reasonable’, it mentioned on Friday in a decree that can set off bolstered safety measures round poultry farms, reported Reuters.
Extremely pathogenic avian influenza, generally known as hen flu, has been spreading sooner amongst poultry within the European Union this season than in 2023, elevating issues of a repeat of earlier crises that led to poultry deaths within the tens of tens of millions and fears it might result in human-to-human transmission.
The heightened danger standing follows affirmation of an infection in migratory wild birds in neighboring nations and goals to strengthen surveillance and prevention measures, the agriculture ministry mentioned.
The change in standing will take impact on Saturday. The improve to danger standing within the seasonal evaluation is kicking in sooner than final yr, taking impact in early November moderately than December.
France has reported eight hen flu outbreaks on farms because the summer time and final month launched a second vaccination marketing campaign amongst farm geese after a profitable programme final yr.
The British authorities mentioned on Tuesday that circumstances of hen flu had been confirmed at premises in Yorkshire, hours after it elevated the danger degree of the illness to ‘excessive’.
