At the end of the year, an outbreak of H5N8 avian influenza was confirmed in the Wisimuv commune in the Lublin region on a farm that contained more than 12 thousand turkeys. turkeys.
To date, the laboratory of the National Veterinary Institute in Pulawy has confirmed a positive result for bird flu H5N8 in three flocks of turkeys.
Currently, about 100 thousand turkeys can be eliminated. Of these, more than 25 thousand are already dead. The detected H5N8 bird flu virus is highly pathogenic in poultry, but no human infection has yet been reported. This is the same virus that has thinned into national bird flocks in 2016-2017.
The last human fatal case of bird flu was reported in 2014 in Canada.
The epidemiological situation associated with the emergence of bird flu in Poland is rapidly becoming more complicated. Veterinary services fight highly pathogenic avian influenza not only in the Lublin region, but also in southern Poland. The disease was discovered on a hen farm, so 65 thousand birds will also be eradicated.
The disease occurred in Upper Osedl in the south of Wielkopolsk and was detected on December 31, 2019. The bodies of infected 65 thousand chickens will be burned, and their eggs will also be destroyed.
The crisis staff meeting will take place today, Friday, under the leadership of the Greater Poland Voivode. Outbreak information may cancel further plans for the successful sale of poultry to China.
- Earlier we reported that a unique farm for 15 thousand turkeys is being built near Penza.
- Italian turkeys will provide salaries and social benefits for 250 Belgorod poultry houses.
- On the Rostov farm killed more than six thousand turkeys.
