Belgium publicizes measures for chicken flu outbreak

Belgium has detected a virus of chicken flu, main authorities to lisp all poultry farmers and particular person chicken house owners to withhold the animals confined, the nation’s meals safety company AFSCA stated Saturday.

Avian influenza has recently unfold to western Europe after outbreaks in Russia and Kazakhstan this summer.

“Three wild birds that stayed in a chicken sanctuary in Ostend tested definite for the H5N8 virus,” AFSCA stated in a observation on Saturday, adding that the outbreak used to be confirmed the day sooner than by the Sciensano public smartly being institute.

AFSCA stated the original measures would possibly perchance presumably presumably be effective from Sunday and would note to private poultry properties as smartly as folk who retain birds of their homes, in a nation where there is a stable custom of pigeon racing.

“All gatherings of poultry and birds are strictly prohibited,” the observation stated, adding that preventive measures admire been imposed on knowledgeable pigeon farms on November 1.

France this month ordered measures for poultry farms equivalent to protective netting to stay contact with wild birds that unfold the disease, after the nation’s ministry of agriculture warned that chicken flu infections admire been on the upward push in western Europe.

To boot to conditions declared in the Netherlands, the ministry pointed to “13 conditions in wild birds in Germany” and a virus on November 3 in the northwest of England.

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