The Corona Pandemic Has Not Been Over, Avian Flu Threatens The Netherlands

East Jakarta Maritime, Agriculture and Defense Sub-Department conducts raids on resident pet poultry in the Utan Kayu area, Jakarta, Thursday (24/3).

The Netherlands faces the threat of another infectious disease that attacks poultry, namely bird flu.

SuaraBatam.id – Netherlands facing the threat of other infectious diseases that attack poultry, that is bird flu. The Dutch Ministry of Agriculture on Thursday (5/11/2020) issued an order to destroy 200,000 chickens.

The culls, which have also been carried out on poultry at another farm one kilometer from the affected farm, are the second in the Netherlands recently after the first detected cases of bird flu appeared in wild birds.

This policy was issued after the authorities found a highly pathogenic bird flu case on a farm in Puiflijk City.

The farm in Puiflijk affected by the bird flu case is within a three-kilometer radius of the location of the first case, which is 30 kilometers from the border with Germany, near the city of Nijmegen.

Other farms have been tested to detect whether there have been cases of the same transmission, while authorities have banned moving birds within a 10 kilometer radius.

The risk of transmitting the H5N8 bird flu virus to humans is considered low, but the World Health Organization (WHO) says the virus has spread to migratory birds, then spread to domestic poultry.

Poultry farmers in the Netherlands have been asked to keep their livestock in cages, to prevent transmission, until further notice.

The poultry sector in the Netherlands is worth around 1.6 billion euros (equivalent to IDR 27 trillion), with 2,000 farms and 10,000 workers.

The country is Europe’s largest exporter of chicken and eggs.

Apart from the Netherlands, on Monday (2/11) Britain also issued an order to destroy 13,000 birds at a farm in Frodsham, Cheshire, after detecting cases of bird flu there.

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