A highly contagious form of bird flu has been detected in the Dutch
village of Hekendorp, in the province of Utrecht, the Dutch Ministry of
Economic Affairs announced on Sunday.
The National Institute for Public Health and Environment (RIVM)
confirmed to national broadcaster NOS that the bird flu variant is H5N8,
a type which also occurred earlier this month in Germany.
The infection with highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza was
found in a poultry farm. The type is very contagious among birds. For
chickens, this version is deadly. CONTINUE READING...
This type of bird flu can also spread to humans, but the effects are
not serious. However, protective measures are adopted for people who may
come into direct and close contact with infected poultry. Also, a
temporary standstill of transport for poultry farms and mixed farms with
poultry was proclaimed throughout the Netherlands.
The farm in Hekendorp is being cleared by the Netherlands Food and
Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA). It is a poultry farm with six
stalls with a total of around 150,000 laying hens.
As of Sunday, at 11.30 a.m. a total ban was ordered on transporting
poultry and other poultry, eggs, poultry manure and used bedding from
poultry farms and mixed farms with poultry. This prohibition applies to a
maximum of 72 hours, while the 16 poultry farms in a zone of 10 km
around the company got a ban of 30 day
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