More Low-Path Bird Flu in Germany
GERMANY - The veterinary authorities have sent a Follow Up Report to the the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) regarding another five outbreaks of low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) on poultry farms.
19 February 2009
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The German veterinary authority has sent Follow Up Report No. 4 dated 19 February to OIE.
It reports five new outbreaks of LPAI, all on farms in the previously affected region of Cloppenburg in Lower Saxony. Of the 72,416 susceptible birds on the farms, 125 were affected. A total of 64,906 birds were destroyed.
The presence of the H5N3 sub-type of the bird flu virus has been confirmed.
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