The scenario drawn up by the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality includes a scenario involving culling if bird flu makes pigs sick. That is possible in theory. Only if it cannot be ruled out that several pigs have become infected with bird flu, should the entire pig population on an infected farm be … Read more
News hour NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 18:19 The Ministries of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality take into account that bird flu can spread to pigs. That is why they are taking precautions: they want structural monitoring of the flu viruses circulating in pigs and they want to be able to cull pigs if they are infected with … Read more
Cambodia confirmed The first H5N1 avian influenza patient was found in 2024. It was a child who was only 3 years old and was already receiving close care from the medical team. Xinhua news agency reported that on Friday (January 26), Cambodia’s Ministry of Health reported the discovery of a 3-year-old boy from Prey Veng … Read more
Egg-Laying Hens Culled as Avian Flu Spreads in California Poultry Farms in Petaluma and Merced County Devastated by Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza PETALUMA, Calif. — The devastating impact of avian flu has reached the heart of California’s poultry farms as the highly contagious virus continues to spread. The news comes just a year after the … Read more
Royal Gazette website Published two announcements from the Department of Livestock Development: 1. Subject: Delaying the import or transit through the Kingdom of poultry or poultry carcasses from the Kingdom of Belgium 2024. 2. Subject: Delaying the import or transit through the Kingdom of poultry or Poultry carcasses from the French Republic The details of … Read more
New research shows that effectively controlling common animal diseases could be a sustainable way to tackle climate change. Every animal lost to a preventable disease also contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. Animal diseases also reduce the productivity of a livestock farm. Animal diseases have a devastating impact on livestock farming. For example, in 2022, 131 … Read more
Last Friday, December 29, highly pathogenic bird flu was again detected on a poultry farm in West Flanders. This concerns a propagation company in Veurne, which is located in the Alveringem surveillance zone, about 5 kilometers from the previous outbreak and less than a kilometer from the French border. The poultry farm’s approximately 33,000 hens … Read more
Highly pathogenic bird flu was diagnosed on Boxing Day, Tuesday, December 26, at a turkey farm in Alveringem in the Flemish province of West Flanders. The affected turkey farm is located in the surveillance zone, which was established last week following an outbreak on a laying hen farm in Warhem, northern France. The approximately 25,000 … Read more
REUTERS | CNN Indonesia Saturday, 16 Dec 2023 22:50 IWST Jakarta, CNN Indonesia — Almost a thousand dogs and sea lions died from the plague bird flu that hit Brazil. The state of Rio Grande do Sul confirmed an unprecedented 942 marine mammal deaths. This report follows highly pathogenic bird flu (HPAI) infections, which were … Read more
Bird flu of the H5 type has been detected in a breeding company in the Belgian town of Esen near Diksmuide (West Flanders). It is the first infection in Belgium this season. This concerns a highly pathogenic variant of the virus. This was reported by the Belgian Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food … Read more