Zoonotic Bird Flu News since 17 till 30 Nov 2021

Italy: Rome seals off park after swan dies from bird flu [Wanted in Rome, 30 Nov 2021]

Death of swan in Villa Pamphilj prompts partial closure of popular Rome park.

Rome's largest park has been partially sealed off to the public after a swan died from a case of avian influenza, or bird flu.

The news was announced on Monday night by the city's mayor Roberto Gualtieri who ordered the 10-day closure of the eastern part of Villa Pamphilj, in the area around the Giglio lake.

Gualtieri said he signed the order with "great regret", after the Italian public health institute IZSVe confirmed the swan died from bird flu, but stressed that "the health of citizens is a priority for us."

The "precautionary closure" follows a recent outbreak of bird flu at Ostia Antica, near Rome, resulting in the lockdown of 35 small farms in the area.

• Italy reports bird flu outbreak near Rome

The death of the swan, known to park-goers as Orietta, comes days after local media reported the deaths of two other birds in the park: another swan, Giulietta, and a goose known as Ines. It is not clear if the two other birds died from avian influenza.

Lazio regional health councillor Alessio D'Amato said on Monday the situation is "under control" and that there are no restrictions on eating eggs or poultry products.

Symptoms of the disease in birds include decreased activity or vocalisation, eating and drinking less and producing fewer eggs.

In addition to Rome and Ostia Antica, cases of avian influenza have been reported in recent months at commercial chicken and turkey farms in the Verona area of the northern Veneto region.

France detects ‘highly pathogenic’ bird flu outbreak [POLITICO.eu, 27 Nov 2021]

BY PAOLA TAMMA

Birds to be culled at farm near Belgian border.

France has detected a "highly pathogenic" strain of bird flu at a poultry farm close to the Belgian border, the government said today.

It's the first time since an serious outbreak last winter that the avian flu has been found in a French farm, the agriculture ministry said in a statement, although four cases have been found among wildlife and three in backyard poultry.

The virus is being analysed by the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety. All birds at the affected farm in the northwestern town of Warhem will be killed and a 10-kilometer surveillance perimeter has been set up, with all movement of poultry prohibited in the area.

Part of the circumscribed area is in the Belgian province of West Flanders. Belgium's Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain today adopted additional measures for the towns of De Panne, Veurne, Alveringem and Poperinge. Poultry farmers and private owners must keep birds caged, and poultry shows and markets are prohibited.

Consumption of poultry and eggs presents no risks to humans, the French ministry said.

Bird Flu: Scottish Government introduce measures after cases in Fife and Scotland [centralfifetimes.com, 26 Nov 2021]

By Ieuan Williams

NEW housing measures to protect poultry and captive birds against avian influenza (Bird Flu) are being introduced after cases across the UK, including in Fife.

The Chief Veterinary Officers for Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland have agreed to bring in new housing measures to protect poultry and captive birds from avian influenza following a number of confirmed cases across the United Kingdom in recent weeks.

The new housing measures, which will come into force on Monday next week, November 29, mean that it will be a legal requirement for all bird keepers across the UK to keep their birds indoors and to follow strict biosecurity measures in order to limit the spread of and eradicate the disease.

Wild birds migrating to the UK from mainland Europe during the winter months can carry the disease and this can lead to cases in poultry and other captive birds.

Public health advice remains that the risk to human health from the virus is very low and food standards bodies advise that avian influenzas pose a very low food safety risk for UK consumers.

Government Chief Veterinary Officers are encouraging bird keepers to use the next five days to prepare for the new housing measures, including taking steps to safeguard animal welfare, consult their vet and put up additional housing where necessary.

The Chief Veterinary Officers from across all four nations have worked together to introduce the new housing measures at the same time, meaning that the restrictions will be applied across the whole of the UK.

In a joint statement the UK’s four Chief Veterinary Officers said:
“We have taken swift action to limit the spread of the disease and are now planning to introduce a legal requirement for all poultry and captive bird keepers to keep their birds housed or otherwise separate from wild birds.

“Whether you keep just a few birds or thousands, from Monday 29 November onwards you will be legally required to keep your birds indoors, or take appropriate steps to keep them separate from wild birds. We have not taken this decision lightly, taking this action now is the best way to protect your birds from this highly infectious disease.”

Following the news that bird keepers across the UK will have to house their birds from Monday, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife Claire Baker has highlighted the importance of backyard keepers following the new requirements in order to mitigate risk.

Last week, Ms Baker called on the Scottish Government to ensure keepers of birds and poultry, as well as the general public, were prepared to respond to any cases of avian influenza virus, following reports of cases in Fife, Perth and Angus, and the status of the UK as an avian influenza prevention zone.

During Portfolio Questions on Environment and Rural Affairs, Ms Baker asked the Scottish Government how it was ensuring keepers, including households with a small number of chickens, were up to date with their responsibilities, and what steps were being taken to encourage preparedness ahead of the anticipated outbreak season this winter.

Following the update from the Scottish Government, MSP Baker said: "Over a million households across Britain now keep chickens but registration is only a legal requirement for keepers of larger flocks. With new housing requirements for birds and strict biosecurity measures coming into force it is vital that all keepers are up to date with their responsibilities.

“Chickens make friendly pets and many backyard keepers will enjoy looking after chickens and the benefits they bring, but they may not always be fully aware of their responsibilities and how important it is to follow them, even for a very small number of birds. From Monday 29 November there is a legal requirement for all bird keepers to keep their birds indoors, in addition to limiting movement in and out of bird enclosures and disinfecting clothing and footwear after entering.

“The Scottish Government needs to ensure it is working to communicate with smaller backyard keepers and the general public on what steps should be taken to mitigate risk and what to do if encountering dead birds.”

Avian flu confirmed in dead wild bird found in Stockton [The Northern Echo, 26 Nov 2021]

By Catherine Priestley

A NEW case of bird flu has been confirmed in the region.

People in the Stockton area are urged to be extra vigilant after the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) confirmed a case of Avian Influenza H5N1 in a wild bird found dead in the borough.

The discovery follows a number of cases across the country, including at three premises near Thirsk and two in Leeming Bar, North Yorkshire.

Control zones are in place at those premises and infected birds will be humanely culled.

Sarah Bowman-Abouna, Director of Public Health for Stockton-on-Tees, said: “UK health agencies have made it clear that the risk to human health is very low and UK food standards agencies advise that bird flu poses a very low food safety risk for UK consumers.

“Nonetheless, the confirmation of a case in our Borough is something we are concerned about and we are appealing to people to be vigilant and take steps to help limit further spread.”

Anyone who finds dead wild waterfowl or other wild birds is asked not to touch or move them but report it to Stockton Borough Council's Animal Health Service on 01642-524789, if it is on public land, or Defra on 03459-335577, if it is on private land.

Bird keepers must follow strict biosecurity measures put in place under the nationwide Avian Influenza Prevention Zone, from 00.01am on Monday which includes keeping birds indoors.

Bird flu confirmed in Sambhar, 80 birds dead in 5 days [Down To Earth Magazine, 25 Nov 2021]

By Madhav Sharma

Veterinarians deployed by local administration yet to reach bird flu-hit Sambhar

Birds in and around the Sambhar tehsil of Jaipur district in Rajasthan died of avian flu in the last five days, according to the report of the Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) in Bhopal released November 24, 2021.

A team from the forest and animal husbandry departments had collected four samples and sent them to the IVRI in Bhopal November 20. Some 80 birds have died of bird flu so far in the area, most of them crows.

Some eight birds were found dead at the Sambhar lake November 23. They included a rufous tree pie, an owl, five crows and a gull. A crow and a Common Teal were found injured.

A stock-taking meeting was organised at the Jaipur district collectorate on the morning of November 24. Officials from the animal husbandry and forest departments and local administration took part.

The animal husbandry department has deployed 10 veterinarians to tackle the situation. But nobody had reached the area till the time of filing this report.

There are fears that if timely action is not taken, there could be a repeat of the events of 2019. That is when over 30,000 migratory birds died of avian botulism.

Botulinum is a natural toxin produced by a bacteria known as Clostridium botulin. It produces the toxin when it starts reproducing.

Botulinum affects both humans and animals but the type of the toxin varies — botulinum C in birds and A, B and E in humans. The toxin has been recognised as a major cause of mortality in wild birds since the 1900s.

A week before the bird deaths were reported from Sambhar, 189 demoiselle cranes had died at Jodhpur’s Kaparda pond.

At least seven more cranes died on November 20. Samples of the dead birds were examined. The cause of death was ascertained to be bird flu.

The H5N1 strain of bird flu can spread from birds to humans if they come into contact.
Symptoms of H5N1 include cough, fever, sore throat, muscular pain, headache and difficulty breathing. The H5N1 strain can also result in human deaths.

Austria finds bird flu on small chicken farm as virus spreads [WTVB News, 25 Nov 2021]

by Francois Murphy & David Clarke

VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria has found a case of bird flu on a small chicken farm near Vienna airport and is ordering poultry farms with more than 350 birds to keep them indoors, public health agency AGES said on Thursday.

The spread https://reut.rs/3l858m7 of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Europe and Asia has put the poultry industry on alert. Past outbreaks, which usually occur in the autumn, have led to the culling of tens of millions of birds and can lead to trade restrictions.

Known as bird flu, the virus is attracting the attention of epidemiologists too as it can be transmitted to humans. China has reported 21 human infections https://reut.rs/3oTNIe2 with the H5N6 subtype of avian influenza so far this year, more than in the whole of 2020.

“The affected farm’s chickens died or were slaughtered under the authorities’ supervision. The farm was closed,” AGES said in a statement, adding that the case was confirmed on Wednesday.

The farm is in the town of Fischamend, east of Vienna and near the borders with Slovakia and Hungary, both of which have reported outbreaks of bird flu in poultry in the past week.

Bird flu was last detected in Austria early this year, on another small farm, AGES said.

It said the virus was being spread across Europe by migratory birds and that local wild birds such as ducks and geese usually also play a role.

The Health Ministry plans to issue a decree on Thursday ordering poultry farms of more than 350 birds in “risk areas” to keep them inside, AGES said.

It did not elaborate on where the risk areas might be but said all contact between farm birds and wild birds should be avoided and farms should implement protective measures such as only feeding their birds in areas with a roof.

Bird flu outbreak: BCP Council continues visits [Bournemouth Echo, 25 Nov 2021]

By Ben Williets

SEVENTY per cent of visits aimed at identifying bird keepers following an outbreak of bird flu have been completed, BCP Council confirmed.

A temporary control zone covering all of Bournemouth, most of Christchurch and Poole was declared following an outbreak of bird flu at a premises in Pokesdown on November 19.

Providing an update, a BCP Council spokesperson said: “We have completed 70 per cent of our visits aimed at identifying bird keepers in order to provide precautionary advice.

“We should be completed by end of the week, or possibly into the weekend.

“No new cases in Bournemouth have been identified although there have been outbreaks in other parts of the country.

“As a result of this, a new order from Defra has been issued requiring bird breeders to keep their flock’s under-cover.

“This order affects BCP residents and businesses, whom we are advising through direct contact and media messaging.”

'Bird flu fears: Worcester's swans still need feeding' [Worcester News, 25 Nov 2021]

By Barry Kinghorn

DEAR Editor – Re the avian flu outbreak, there have been no deaths or sick swans in Worcester for over a week.

The barriers were put up at the top of the boathouse steps next to the Severn in Worcester to reduce the possibility of infection being spread by walking in droppings.

Exceptions were made by the city council for two named volunteers to cross the barrier at different times for the welfare of the swans. These volunteers are equipped with the appropriate sprays for their boots on leaving the step area.

We are monitoring the river for any further outbreaks. Last year there were no further deaths once the virus had passed through the flock.

There is no reason why people should not feed swans in Worcester on account of the virus.
The swans flock together naturally before feeding times, and at night many of them sleep in the shelter of Diglis Island or the oil basin, towards which sick swans tend to drift anyway.
They get thoroughly mixed up.

And the more hungry the swans are, the more they will bunch together at regular feeding times.

We can try to spread the swans out by the way we feed – it makes us feel better to think we are doing something to help but really the virus is a natural occurrence in a flock that builds some immunity in survivors – just like all the infections our youngsters get in school every winter.

Marilyn McCarthy

Western Cape avian flu oubreak sees seabird deaths top 21 000 [News24, 25 Nov 2021]

More than 20 500 endangered Cape cormorants have died in the Western Cape following an avian flu outbreak.

The outbreak, which was first recorded last month, has seen 21 172 wild seabirds dying. The majority of these birds were endangered Cape cormorants. The worst affected area is Dyer Island off Gansbaai, home to a Cape cormorant breeding colony, where 13 195 deaths have been recorded.

Before the outbreak, there were an estimated 57 000 breeding pairs in South Africa, said Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (Sanccob) research manager Katta Ludynia.

Ludynia previously told News24 the Cape cormorant population had declined by more than 50% in the past 30 years.

According to Anton Bredell, Western Cape MEC for Local Government, Environmental Affairs and Development Planning, the number of dead birds is decreasing, with less than 100 dead birds being recorded per day.

"The numbers remain low but constant at the moment. All efforts continue to manage the situation, with the primary focus on responding swiftly to areas where dead and sick birds are found, and then implementing a clean-up. We believe if the efforts are let up, the numbers may increase again so all our stakeholders continue to work hard to address the situation where it crops up," he said.

The Disaster Management Centre has urged residents across the province to continue to be vigilant and report unusual behaviour or mortalities among any birds to their local municipality, conservation authority or state veterinarian. The SPCA may also be contacted.

Bird flu confirmed in Sambhar, 80 birds dead in 5 days [Down To Earth Magazine, 25 Nov 2021]

By Madhav Sharma

Veterinarians deployed by local administration yet to reach bird flu-hit Sambhar

Birds in and around the Sambhar tehsil of Jaipur district in Rajasthan died of avian flu in the last five days, according to the report of the Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) in Bhopal released November 24, 2021.

A team from the forest and animal husbandry departments had collected four samples and sent them to the IVRI in Bhopal November 20. Some 80 birds have died of bird flu so far in the area, most of them crows.

Some eight birds were found dead at the Sambhar lake November 23. They included a rufous tree pie, an owl, five crows and a gull. A crow and a Common Teal were found injured.

A stock-taking meeting was organised at the Jaipur district collectorate on the morning of November 24. Officials from the animal husbandry and forest departments and local administration took part.

The animal husbandry department has deployed 10 veterinarians to tackle the situation. But nobody had reached the area till the time of filing this report.

There are fears that if timely action is not taken, there could be a repeat of the events of 2019. That is when over 30,000 migratory birds died of avian botulism.

Botulinum is a natural toxin produced by a bacteria known as Clostridium botulin. It produces the toxin when it starts reproducing.

Botulinum affects both humans and animals but the type of the toxin varies — botulinum C in birds and A, B and E in humans. The toxin has been recognised as a major cause of mortality in wild birds since the 1900s.

A week before the bird deaths were reported from Sambhar, 189 demoiselle cranes had died at Jodhpur’s Kaparda pond.

At least seven more cranes died on November 20. Samples of the dead birds were examined. The cause of death was ascertained to be bird flu.

The H5N1 strain of bird flu can spread from birds to humans if they come into contact.

Symptoms of H5N1 include cough, fever, sore throat, muscular pain, headache and difficulty breathing. The H5N1 strain can also result in human deaths.

Alert after bird flu found on Leicestershire farm [BBC News, 25 Nov 2021]

Restrictions have been placed on the movement of poultry after bird flu was found in Leicestershire.

Two zones, one 3km (1.9 mile) and another 10km (6.2 miles) from a poultry farm near Barrow upon Soar, have been put in place, covering Loughborough.

Inside the zones there are tighter measures, including more controls on the movement of poultry, eggs and meat.

Leicestershire County Council has said the risk to public health from avian influenza is "very low".

Further testing is under way and all the birds on the infected farm will be killed.

Measures directed at bird owners inside the zones include keeping records of visitors, records of movement of any poultry products and keeping any birds housed or isolated.


A number of locations across the UK - as well as Europe and Asia - have seen outbreaks of bird flu this year.

The H5N1 virus is highly contagious and can kill poultry flocks.

But the government has said that while bird flu can transmit to humans, it is rare and the risks are low.

It is also safe to eat poultry products, officials said.

The controls will be in place until further notice.

Austria finds bird flu on small chicken farm as virus spreads [WTVB News, 25 Nov 2021]

by Francois Murphy & David Clarke

VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria has found a case of bird flu on a small chicken farm near Vienna airport and is ordering poultry farms with more than 350 birds to keep them indoors, public health agency AGES said on Thursday.

The spread https://reut.rs/3l858m7 of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Europe and Asia has put the poultry industry on alert. Past outbreaks, which usually occur in the autumn, have led to the culling of tens of millions of birds and can lead to trade restrictions.

Known as bird flu, the virus is attracting the attention of epidemiologists too as it can be transmitted to humans. China has reported 21 human infections https://reut.rs/3oTNIe2 with the H5N6 subtype of avian influenza so far this year, more than in the whole of 2020.

“The affected farm’s chickens died or were slaughtered under the authorities’ supervision. The farm was closed,” AGES said in a statement, adding that the case was confirmed on Wednesday.

The farm is in the town of Fischamend, east of Vienna and near the borders with Slovakia and Hungary, both of which have reported outbreaks of bird flu in poultry in the past week.

Bird flu was last detected in Austria early this year, on another small farm, AGES said.

It said the virus was being spread across Europe by migratory birds and that local wild birds such as ducks and geese usually also play a role.

The Health Ministry plans to issue a decree on Thursday ordering poultry farms of more than 350 birds in “risk areas” to keep them inside, AGES said.

It did not elaborate on where the risk areas might be but said all contact between farm birds and wild birds should be avoided and farms should implement protective measures such as only feeding their birds in areas with a roof.

Minnesota Turkey Farm Hit by Bird Flu [krforadio.com, 23 Nov 2021]

By Roy Koenig

A Minnesota turkey farm has been hit with a case of a mild version of avian influenza. The situation is not a food safety issue according to the Minnesota Board of Animal Health, who also states, "This is not the same virus that was the cause of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI Outbreak in the Midwest in 2015."

The news release from the board indicates the outbreak was found in a turkey flock from Kandiyohi County during a routine test. "Testing birds before they go to market is standard protocol for our poultry flocks in Minnesota because it verifies healthy birds are sent to market, and if disease is detected, we can hold the flock and work quickly with producers to address the disease," said Dr. Beth Thompson, State Veterinarian.

The flock was quarantined on Monday, November 22. The animal health board is continuing to test the flock "as well as commercial poultry operations and individuals with backyard flocks within 10 kilometers for signs of the disease. Avian influenza is not a food safety issue."

Slovakia reports bird flu outbreak in poultry – OIE [WTVB News, 23 Nov 2021]

by Sybille de La Hamaide & Gus Trompiz

PARIS (Reuters) – Slovakia has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus among backyard poultry, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Tuesday.

The outbreak followed several outbreaks among poultry farms in Europe and Asia in recent weeks in a sign the virus is spreading quickly again.

The virus was detected in 14 backyard birds in Dunajska Streda, southeast of Bratislava, the OIE said, citing a report from the Slovakian authorities.

Bird flu added to COVID-19 in Tatarstan [Realnoe vremya, 23 Nov 2021]

by Eleonora Rylova

Farmers in Tukay District have to slaughter their poultry, Minnikhanov is concerned about pensioners, while Kazan and Almetyevsk were short-charged

The introduction of new restrictions due to the strained situation due to COVID-19 and new trouble in the form of a bird flu outbreak — these are two hot-button issues among those that were discussed at a traditional Saturday meeting with Rustam Minnikhanov in the House of Government on 20 November. Also, it became known that large-scale repairs in blocks of flats hadn’t been completed in 10 cities of the republic. A shortage of financing from local budgets is the culprit. Only 64% of money envisaged by the programme was received, Kazan and Almetyevsk are key debtors. Read more in Realnoe Vremya’s report.

“Transport is that zone where one can get infected faster”
Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov started the meeting with a topic that wasn’t on the agenda deciding to get the priorities right. He claimed that the tense situation in the republic due to COVID-19 required new restrictive measures. Since Monday 22 November, only those adults of the republic who have QR codes (about vaccination or recovery from the coronavirus in the last six months) or certificate of a medical exemption have been able to use public transport.

“Transport is that zone where one can get infected faster, of course, people have mixed feelings about these novelties, but we don’t have choice. The situation in those countries that took this road is already stabilising,” the Tatarstan president stressed.

Rustam Minnikhanov touched on pensioners who have the lowest vaccination rate, just 49%.

Meanwhile, according to him, most beds in COVID-19 hospitals are occupied precisely by citizens older than 60 years. They account for 85% of deaths. To stimulate vaccination in this group of population, the citizens above 60 years who don’t have a QR code or medical exemption will have their social transport cards blocked.

“The elderly are in the high risk group because they seriously suffer from COVID-19. We are trying to protect them as much as possible,” Minnikhanov stressed.

According to the president, from 15,000 to 30,000 citizens are daily vaccinated in Tatarstan.

1,9 million people have already received at least one dose, 1,4 million have been fully vaccinated. 54,000 people have been revaccinated. The head of the republic noted that the growth pace of new infection cases was falling, but it was necessary to save the dynamics so that people could calmly celebrate New Year, which is around the corner, “so that they will be positive.”

Minnikhanov reminded the audience that it has been ordered to suspend the workers who haven’t received the first dose since 9 November according to a decree of the chief state sanitary doctor of Tatarstan, besides people who have a medical exemption or recovered from the disease in the last six months.

“Directors of enterprises and organisations must mandatorily comply with the decree. This is in your interests. Your employees must be healthy, shouldn’t pose a threat to their colleagues and their families. The work is running very smoothly in those workplaces where managers considered this issue responsibly. There is no other way. We will strictly keep an eye on this,” the Tatarstan president said.

Chief veterinarian instructed farmers to start slaughtering poultry
Besides coronavirus, another trouble has appeared in Tatarstan, which is the bird flu. In autumn, it was registered in neighbouring regions: in Saratov, Samara, Orenburg, Kirov Oblasts, Bashkortostan and Udmurtia. On 19 November, it “crossed the border.” As Director of the Main Veterinary Office of the Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers and chief state veterinarian inspector of Tatarstan Almaz Khisamutdinov explained, an outbreak of very pathogenic bird flu were detected at a quail farm in Tukay District. The farm bred 42,000 adult quails and 10,000 quail chicks. All of them had to be destroyed. Another 48,000 eggs and 171 kg of meat in the farm’s warehouse were disposed of too.

The five-kilometre outbreak area includes 3 settlements of the district. Their residents keep over 3,500 different kinds of birds.

“Today we cannot permit the infection to keep spreading. Farm owners must start slaughtering poultry they have raised for their own needs. Those who breed the poultry on an industrial scale for sale must switch to a closed maintenance regime and comply with all our requirements and instructions of Russia’s agricultural safety watchdog,” Khisamutdinov gave farmers valuable instructions.

Also, he urged them to be careful about where the fodder is brought from and disinfect the amenities so that employees don’t bring the virus on their clothes and shoes. Rustam Minnikhanov reminded that farmers must meet all the requirements given by the veterinarian office. He also urged them to calculate the losses the farmers would have.

“It is better to act strictly on time. It is necessary to introduce very stringent control in all the enterprises that deal with poultry: over staff, fodder, following the rules. All these issues must be seriously overseen,” the Tatarstan president said.

Kazan and Almetyevsk considered debtors
At the Saturday meeting, they traditionally talked about the execution of republican major repair programmes. Tatarstan Minister of Construction, Architecture and Utilities Marat Ayzatullin reported that nowadays 15 in 27 programmes have been implemented, that’s to say, 1,030 in 3,488 facilities have been repaired. Another 12 programmes are still in work. It is necessary to complete 38 facilities and a number of blocks of flats in 10 municipalities for over 1,7 billion rubles.

Kindergarten No. 104 in Kazan, four hospital buildings in Nizhnekamsk, Chistopol, Bugulma and Leninogorsk, two children camps, four facilities that belong to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a series of sports venues are among the places where big repairs haven’t yet ended. Only 48 in 413 educational establishments have been repaired.

Ayzatullin delivered a report reading that last week contractors completed works in the last facilities in two programmes. So 881 facilities have been repaired for 1,4 billion rubles in six engineering infrastructure modernisation areas.

The minister said there was a delay in the repairs of houses because 15% of this programme is financed by municipal money, while there is a shortage of money. Nowadays 740 million rubles, or 64% of the amount envisaged by the programme, has been received from local budgets.
The republic’s two richest cities — Kazan and Almetyevsk — unexpectedly turned out to be debtors.

Only 34% of settlements are in the registry
Tatarstan Minister of Land and Property Fanil Agliullin noted that today the United State Real Estate Registry contains information about only 34% of settlements (1,059 in 3,119), which are parts of 293 municipalities. To include them in the registry, it is necessary to elaborate general plans of 327 municipalities. If the pace stays, this will take more than 8 years, the speaker said.

He added that it is also necessary to create 565 projects on land use and development rules. 130 rules have been approved since 2018. But territorial zones only in 15 approved rules have been added to the cadastral registry.

Fanil Agliullin named the reasons for the delay. It is the absence of information about the borders of territorial zones in the materials of rules. Also, the executive committee (client) doesn’t send information about the borders of territorial zones to the registry or stops further actions after being denied cadastral registration.

The Ministry of Land and Property reported on the course of works designed to establish the borders of the Republic of Tatarstan. The total length of the republic’s border is about 3,500 kilometres. It is necessary to add information about eight parts of the border with neighbouring regions to the registry. The minister called 570 of them “problematic”, nowadays 90% of issues have been resolved, the work on 29 segments goes on.

Working projects on borders were approved at joint meetings of task forces regarding the borders with Orenburg Oblast and the Chuvash Republic, the Republic of Mari El, Samara Oblast and the Republic of Bashkortostan. An agreement with Orenburg Oblast signed with the Republic of Tatarstan has been sent to the region’s governor.

Works on the approval of projects of the border with Ulyanovsk Oblast are about to end. Joint events and three rounds of negotiations on the discussion of the border’s project were held. Nowadays the final round of talks is being prepared.

22 segments remain unapproved on the border with the Udmurt Republic. The materials on the border near Agryz city prepared by the administration of Agryz District, Tatarstan, and Malopurgino District, Udmurtia, were the foundation of the project.

The performer of works to establish the borders have not yet been chosen in Orenburg and Ulyanovsk Oblasts, the Republics of Mari El and Bashkortostan. Due to this, the works on the projects are done by the Spatial Data Fund of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Zelenodolsk District asks the republic for money
Governor of Zelenodolsk District Mikhail Afanasyev reported on socio-economic development and asked the republic to help to repair the road at the entrance to the city and organise water supply and discharge in the Raifa area, which doesn’t have centralised sewerage in general.

The road repair project is already ready and was inspected, only money is needed to start the works. While the Raifa area doesn’t have centralised sewerage in general, this is why Afanasyev asked the president for support with engineering sewerage for villages and settlements of this territory.

Also, the head of the district reminded the audience that the municipality was preparing to celebrate the 90th jubilee since it obtained the status of city. On this occasion, Afanasyev invited the president, thanked him for supporting the initiative of giving Zelenodolsk the status of Labour Merit City.

“Hopefully, on its jubilee, Zelenodolsk will get this honourable status,” Afanasyev expressed his hope.

Measures in place after Bird Flu outbreak in North Fambridge | Echo [Echo, 22 Nov 2021]

By Jessica Day-Parker

PRECAUTIONARY measures are being put in place after an outbreak of bird flu has been confirmed at a premise in North Fambridge.

Essex County Council has confirmed the isolated outbreak is in birds and there are no cases in people.

This is the second outbreak of Avian Influenza in Essex in the past two weeks but the county council says there is no evidence to suggest the two are linked.

The response is being led by Essex County Council, Maldon District Council, Chelmsford City Council, Rochford District Council and the Animal and Plant Health Agency.

Health officials have visited the site and taken actions including testing and cleansing.

Avian Influenza is a disease which mainly affects birds but on rare occasions it can affect mammals including humans.

Due to this a number of precautionary measures are being put in place.

Officers will be visiting 965 houses and commercial properties within a 3km zone detailing actions which need to be undertaken and who to contact in the event of a suspected case.

Residents are required to notify Essex County Council of any poultry on their premises and to avoid moving poultry in and out of the 3km zone.

Road signs will be put up on roads entering or leaving the 3km zone.

Anyone who is concerned should call NHS 111 or speak to their GP.

People in direct contact with the affected birds have been contacted and offered appropriate preventative treatment.

John Spence, the county council’s cabinet member for adults and health, said: “It is important to reassure people that the risk of anyone becoming infected as a result of an outbreak like this is extremely low.

“Nevertheless, it is important that we put the correct precautions in place and working with Defra, Maldon District Council, Rochford District Council and Chelmsford City Council this is what we have done.

"We will be visiting premises around the site of the outbreak, and offering information and advice, over the coming days.”

Pet owners with other animals don't usually need to take other action.

If a person has concerns regarding their pet they should contact their private vet.

Richard Siddall, Maldon District Council’s leader designate, said: “As the local council, we are ready to help our colleagues at Defra, the Animal and Plant Health Agency and Essex County Council in any way we can, and particularly with activity to make local people aware of this outbreak.

“The important thing is for people to react sensibly, understand there is minimal risk to human health, and if you keep birds then to follow the measures set out by the authorities.”

The Food Standards Agency has said on the basis of scientific evidence Avian Influenza poses a very low food safety risk for UK consumers.

Properly cooked poultry and poultry products, including eggs, are safe to eat.

Dr David Edwards, Public Health England’s Regional Deputy Director (Acting), UK Health Security Agency East, said: “Avian Influenza is primarily a disease of birds and the risk to the general public’s health is very low.

"We are working closely with Defra to monitor the situation and have provided the necessary health advice to anyone on site as a precaution.

“We know the importance of washing hands when it comes to COVID and the same applies here – try not to touch any sick or dead birds and make sure to wash your hands thoroughly with soap after contact with any animal.”

Bird flu confirmed at Blackpool's Stanley Park as total of 15 birds killed [Accrington Observer, 22 Nov 2021]

By Jamie Lopez

Blackpool Council says a total of 15 birds have died with similar symptoms

One of the swans which died at a Blackpool park has tested positive bird flu, it has been confirmed.

Three swans died at Stanley Park after showing symptoms of the disease, also known as avian influenza.

Blackpool Council says a total of 15 birds have died with similar symptoms and confirmed that one of the swans was carrying the disease.

A cordon has been erected after the birds died and while the park is still open, people are asked not to go near the edge of the lake.

Avian influenza is a disease which mainly affects birds but on rare occasions it can affect mammals including humans.

Consequently, several precautionary measures have been put in place around the several areas in where it has been identified in Lancashire and Cumbria - including a 3km protection zone, a 10km surveillance zone and the humane culling of birds at risk of infection

A spokesperson for Blackpool Council said: “Unfortunately one of the swans that died at Stanley Park last week has tested positive for Avian Influenza.

“Sadly 15 birds have now died with similar symptoms.

“We know that many people love visiting Stanley Park and will find this upsetting news. We can assure you that the birds are well fed and we are keeping a close eye on them.

“Although the risk to the general public’s health is very low it is vitally important visitors to the park follow the signage that is in place.”

Over the last week, disease control zones were put in place in Kirkham, Preston, South Ribble, Wyre,Fylde and Copeland in Cumbria.

The Cumbrian case has been confirmed by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs as being highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), which is the more serious type and is often fatal in birds. However, the risk to public health remains “very low”.

Blackpool Council has issued advice to those visiting Stanley Park, including to respect the cordon and not walk by the lake or dogs in the water. It also warned people not to touch any injured or deceased birds.

The spokesperson added: “Thank you to everyone who has offered support and assistance. Our team has been specially trained and has appropriate PPE to handle the birds to minimise any risks.

We will continue to keep you updated and will lift the cordon once it is safe to do so.”

Bird flu outbreak on aristocrat's country estate puts Christmas dinner turkeys at risk [Mirror.co.uk, 22 Nov 2021]

By Alahna Kindred

This is the third outbreak of the highly-contagious H5N1 strain of avian flu in the East Anglia region recorded by the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs in recent days

A bird flu outbreak has been confirmed on an aristocrat's estate in an area where millions of turkeys are being raised for Christmas dinner.

The disease is carried by migrating birds and has been found in a small flock of pet birds including chickens and turkeys on the Holkham Estate in Norfolk.

The small flock on the Holkham Estate is being culled to prevent the spread of the disease.

Temporary control zones have been set to restrict the movements of the birds in surrounding areas.

This is the third outbreak of the H5N1 strain of avian flu in the region recorded by the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs in recent days.

On November 11, the highly-contagious virus was found at an animal sanctuary at Kirby Cross, Essex.

It was then found again 12 miles away at "premises" in North Fambridge near Maldon.

The latest outbreak was invited yesterday evening after several birds suddenly died at a rented house in the 3,000 across of parkland that surrounding Holkham Hall.

The 18th century Palladian mansion is home to Thomas Coke, the 8th Earl of Leicester, and his family.

Norfolk is the country's turkey-producing area with dozens of farms and suppliers.

One includes Bernard Matthews, which produces turkeys to get ready for Christmas dinner tables.

A spokesperson at Holkham said: "A case of bird flu has been identified at a residential address on the Holkham estate in a very small domesticated flock of housed foul.

"A 3km temporary control zone is now in place and the situation is being monitored carefully."

Defra said further testing was underway to confirm the pathogenicity of the virus strain at Holkham to try and establish how infectious it is.

A spokesperson for the department added: "A number of birds have already died on the premises, all remaining birds will be humanely culled to limit the risk of onward transmission."

An Avian Influenza Prevention Zone (AIPZ) has been in place across the UK since November 3 with all bird keepers - whether large commercial farms or back-yard hobbyists - having to follow strict biosecurity measures to help protect their flocks.

However, outbreaks have been recorded in Cumbria, Warwickshire, Cheshire and North Yorkshire as well as Essex.

Previous, outbreaks of the disease had led to the culls of thousands of turkeys and ducks in East Anglia last November.

UK food and health agencies advise that the risk to public health from the virus is very low and that avian influenzas pose a very low food safety risk for consumers.

Health officials still insist that properly cooked poultry and poultry products, such as eggs, are safe to eat.

The temporary control zones around Holkham restricts all unlicensed movements of poultry and requires flocks to be kept indoors or isolated with no contact with other birds.

Lesser restrictions apply to birds kept with 10km of the infected flock.

Poultry keepers and members of the public should report dead wild birds to Defra's helpline on 03459 33 55 77 (option 7) and keepers should report suspicion of disease to APHA on 03000 200 301.

BBC News Bird flu outbreak confirmed in Wells-next-the-Sea [ABC News, 22 Nov 2021]

Once again, Europe is experiencing bird flu outbreaks – the deadliest animal disease known. In chickens and turkeys, over 90% of an affected flock will die within a couple of weeks, although in ducks and geese the disease may be milder.

Bird flu outbreaks are caused by avian influenza viruses, most of which cause mild infection in birds, but two sub-types (called H5 and H7) can occur as a very deadly virus.

Flu viruses have a high mutation rate and can exchange genes when two viruses simultaneously infect a single host. These genetic changes allow them to change their make up and escape immunity in their host and continue spreading.

In the previous century, epidemics of the deadly bird flu were rare and always originated from mild H5 or H7 viruses that mutated into a deadly virus while transmitting in a chicken or turkey flock. Until 1996, resulting outbreaks and epidemics were either effectively controlled or faded out due to a lack of susceptible hosts.

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H5N1 emerges
Infections caused by these deadly viruses were also never seen in wild birds. This changed after the emergence of the H5N1 virus in China. Outbreaks in poultry were not effectively controlled. The virus gradually expanded its territory across China, and from 2003, further into Asia and Africa. Humans in close contact with infected poultry could become infected, resulting in the death of 456 people to date.

Wild birds became infected because of a spillover from the ongoing spread of the virus in poultry. This gave rise to new H5 viruses that were still deadly to poultry, but of little harm to certain waterbird species. Consequently, migratory waterbirds could fly thousands of kilometres, despite being infected by these viruses, and so were able to spread the viruses over very large distances.

In 2005, wild waterbirds introduced the virus to Europe for the first time during fall migration. This was the first sign that the ecology of these viruses had completely changed; a virus strictly associated with poultry had adapted itself to wild water birds, tremendously increasing its survival potential.

Each year in spring and summer, waterbirds mingle on their breeding grounds in Siberia and mix their influenza viruses, creating new variants they then bring to Europe, Asia and Africa during fall migration, causing deadly outbreaks in poultry.

Obviously, there is little we can do to control infections in the wild water birds. Surveillance is recommended to assess the risk of virus exposure to poultry and the removal of carcasses of dead birds from the environment.

Poultry farmers in areas with many waterbirds that stay there over winter are advised to keep poultry inside and should implement biosecurity measures to keep the virus out of their sheds. Faeces of infected wild birds can contain high amounts of virus and can easily enter a poultry shed by uncleaned boots or materials.

Current biosecurity programmes have not been sufficiently effective to prevent infections in risk areas. In the season 2020-21 there were over 1,000 outbreaks in the EU alone. And in the current season, tens of outbreaks have already been detected.

The yearly recurring outbreaks, with the associated mass killing of poultry, are an obvious threat to the sustainability of poultry farming.

Poultry vaccine
Vaccination could be a tool to help solve the problem. However, it is forbidden in many countries and its use results in trade barriers for poultry. The reason for the trade barriers is that most current vaccines prevent disease, but don’t stop transmission of the infection.

A vaccine that stops disease but doesn’t stop transmission will result in “silent” virus spread, which compromises outbreak control and is undesirable because the virus has the potential to spread from animals to humans.

Fortunately, most of the currently circulating H5 virus variants are not as dangerous to humans as their ancestor H5N1. Still, caution is needed as this could easily change because of the virus’s ability to change its genetic code.

We urgently need effective vaccines for poultry – it is the only sustainable solution. New-generation vaccines may have more potential to control bird flu, but their effectiveness to stop virus transmission should be demonstrated in the field. Such vaccines will not only protect poultry but also minimise exposure of humans to the virus.

Bird flu: What is avian influenza, how does it spread, which viruses infect humans and should we be worried? [ABC News, 22 Nov 2021]

By Belinda Smith

The COVID-19 pandemic may have crushed seasonal flu to historically low levels, but another type of flu — avian influenza or bird flu — has showed no signs of slowing.

In the past month, severe bird flu has popped up in poultry farms across Europe and Asia, with Japan confirming its third outbreak for the winter season so far.

The outbreaks follow Japan's worst winter for bird flu yet. More than 3 million chickens were destroyed in 2020-21.

Closer to home, six Victorian farms, including an emu farm, culled hundreds of thousands of birds in 2020 and early 2021 after multiple outbreaks involving three different strains of the virus.

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While bird flu viruses do generally stick to infecting birds, they occasionally make the potentially deadly leap to other animals, including humans.

In May, for instance, the first confirmed human case of a rare bird flu subtype was reported in China.

Ricardo Soares Magalhães, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Queensland, says this recent spate of new bird flu strains that can hop to humans is unusual.

"Usually, you'd see these viruses just affecting the poultry population, and very few human cases, or none at all," Dr Soares Magalhães said.

"But most of the different examples we've had in the last year-and-a-half have been viruses that had some human transmission."

And despite the COVID-19 pandemic being driven by a coronavirus, epidemiologists are "very wary" when it comes to emerging flu strains, he added, with influenza still at the top of pandemic-potential diseases.

What is bird flu and where does it come from?
Bird flu is caused by a handful of influenza viruses, just like the seasonal flu that circulates each winter.

ABCs of Hs and Ns:
• Influenza A viruses, which infect humans and animals, are classified into subtypes depending on two spike proteins that cover their surface:
o haemagglutinin
o neuraminidase
• There are 18 different haemagglutinin (H1 to H18) and 11 neuraminidase (N1 to N11) proteins
• Each virus has one type of H and one type of N (such as H1N1 and H3N2)

But while seasonal flu infections rise in cool weather, drop off in spring and spread easily in human populations, bird flu — with the odd exception — is transmitted only between animals or from animals to humans.

It mostly circulates in wild birds, and spreads when migratory waterfowl fly between their summer and winter homes.

Larger birds, such as ducks and geese, tend to ferry bird flu viruses around the world, said Frank Wong, a CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory microbiologist and World Organisation for Animal Health reference expert for highly pathogenic and low pathogenic avian influenza.

(Generally, if smaller migratory birds such as shorebirds are infected with bird flu, they're more likely to delay their migration, or not set out on their journey at all.)

And now, it's peak autumn waterfowl migration time in the northern hemisphere, which is why European and Asian countries are seeing an uptick in bird flu outbreaks, Dr Wong added.

"When the birds congregate [to feed and breed] … mixing of birds also results in mixing of viruses, including influenza viruses. Then when the birds fly south or westwards for the winter, they carry those viruses with them.

"If those wild birds interact with domestic birds, the viruses they're carrying might spill over and cause outbreaks in domestic poultry."

Free-range farming may increase spillover odds too.

YOUTUBEVictoria's worst outbreak of bird flu is raising questions about free-range farming.
Most bird flu viruses out there are low pathogenic strains, causing little to no disease to the wild birds that carry them.

But the problem is they can quickly become highly pathogenic, incredibly contagious and lethal.

Once a highly pathogenic bird flu virus has made its way into a poultry farm, it can spread rapidly and devastate entire flocks.

What's the bird flu situation in Australia?
Australia is in a pretty good place when it comes to bird flu.

There have been only eight outbreaks of the disease in Australia since the 1970s, with the biggest happening in Victoria last year.

Unlike Europe and Asia, Australia has no large waterfowl seasonal migrations from abroad, which bring in new viruses each year, Dr Wong said.

"Australian wild ducks are different species to migratory ducks and geese up in the northern hemisphere.

"Our endemic species of ducks are what we call nomadic. They don't travel according to the seasons — they mainly stay within the Australo-Papuan region — and they move according to drought and rain cycles."

Australia also has stringent controls around how poultry is shuttled into and around the country.

What are the symptoms of bird flu?
• Sudden death
• Difficulty breathing, such as coughing, sneezing, or rasping
• Swelling and purple discolouration of the head, comb, wattles and neck
• Rapid drop in eating, drinking and egg production
• Ruffled feathers, dopiness, closed eyes
• Diarrhoea

And the National Avian Influenza Wild Birds surveillance programme analyses bird poo and the like to keep tabs on the low-pathogenic H7 strains circulating in the wild, Dr Wong said.

Among other biosecurity measures, local regulations state that poultry farms cannot be located near lakes or other bodies of water, Dr Soares Magalhães said: "Just being a few kilometres away can be a risk factor."

That's because the virus doesn't always need direct contact or faeces to spread between birds.
"Because it's a respiratory virus, it can be aerosolised at very large distances. So having those water bodies nearby will attract wild birds, and that means you will have a greater chance of transmission through the air."

Still, these measures aren't completely watertight. And if bird flu is detected in an Australian poultry farm, the policy is clear.

"In Australia, we don't want these viruses around, so regardless of if it's a low pathogenic strain or a high pathogenic strain, depopulation is the way to go," Dr Soares Magalhães said.

Depopulation — or culling — may seem an extreme measure, but the disease can quickly cause debilitation and death, especially if it's a highly pathogenic strain.

"The best strategy from an animal welfare perspective is to depopulate the flock," Dr Soares Magalhães said.

"That happens on a radius of 3 kilometres around the affected zone, and then we impose a surveillance zone out to another 7km."

So that's birds. What about humans?
For a human to get bird flu, they need direct contact with infected birds, or contaminated feathers or faeces. It can't be passed on by eating eggs and cooked meat.

So far, there's been very little human-to-human bird flu transmission, but that doesn't mean new strains won't gain that ability, Dr Soares Magalhães said.

"COVID [which probably originated in bats] is a good example of that."

Pigs can be infected with more than one flu virus, and if that happens, they can act as a virus mixing vessel of sorts to produce new viruses.

Influenza's genetic code, which dictates qualities such as the animals it infects and its contagiousness, is stored as a strand of RNA. If two (or more) influenza viruses meet in a pig's body, they can swap sections of that RNA strand.

Most of the time, these mutations die out. Occasionally, they might spawn a particularly pathogenic strain.

"The H5N1 virus is a good example of a virus that emerged through the interaction of a poultry virus with a swine virus, and has elements of a human virus," Dr Soares Magalhães said.
"But there are some exceptions to that rule.

"H7N9 is a virus that did not need a pig at all. It came straight from chickens to human beings."
Which are the viruses to watch?

Of the different bird flu viruses, H5 and H7 subtypes have the propensity to mutate from low to high pathogenic strains.

The H5N1 subtype, for instance, was first detected in a human in Hong Kong in the 1990s and, in 2003, kicked off a major bird flu outbreak, killing at least 280 people.

There have been more than 860 confirmed cases of H5N1 in humans to date, 456 of whom died.

"The current lineage of highly pathogenic H5 that's causing outbreaks in the northern hemisphere has adapted to be more amenable for infection in many different wild bird species, including ducks and geese," Dr Wong said.

"This has allowed it to have this rapid seasonal spread, when the conditions are right."

Then there's H7N9, which was first reported in humans in China in 2013. It has been reported in more than 1,500 people since and can cause severe disease.

What makes this virus trickier to contain is that it doesn't produce many symptoms in birds.
"That virus is actually a little more insidious," Dr Wong said.

"When a low-pathogenic H7N9 circulates in chickens or ducks, it's harder to spot because the chickens or ducks may not show signs of disease.

"And the right interplay of genes that virus carried [allowed] multiple spillovers into humans."

Just recently, a third H type was found in humans. China reported that a H10N3 virus hospitalised a 41-year-old man.

When it was detected in birds, epidemiologists weren't overly concerned about it spilling over into humans, because there's no history of H10 viruses infecting us, Dr Soares Magalhães said.

"But then there was a human infection as a result of that virus, and the mechanism of transmission was similar to H7N9, whereby there was no indication of pig involvement."
So how worried should we be about a bird flu pandemic?

The COVID-19 pandemic has seen more funding made available for surveillance programs for diseases such as bird flu.

But even before the pandemic, regions where most bird flu strains first popped up — such as China — really stepped up their poultry farm biosecurity strategies, Dr Soares Magalhães said.

"China will perhaps be the location where new viruses emerge, but they will stop it very quickly."

So it's very much a watch and wait scenario, but we might not have to wait too long.

Dr Soares Magalhães's spatial epidemiology group is helping a World Health Organization program rank countries in South-East Asia according to their capabilities to control diseases that, like bird flu, can jump from animals to humans.

But the part of the world he has an eye on is further afield.

"It's very likely that new viruses will start to emerge; not in the traditional countries where that has happened, but in [what was known as] the Eastern Bloc," Dr Soares Magalhães said.

Even though the biosecurity of farms in the region has been scaled up in the past couple of decades, it "still tends to be suboptimal", he said.

Neighbouring Poland is currently grappling with multiple outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu.

"Poland is the largest poultry producer in Europe, so they have the largest at-risk population.
"No wonder Poland is bearing the brunt of this."

Climate change could encourage new strains of bird flu to emerge too. As the world warms, migratory birds may spend winter elsewhere, and mix with different bird populations — and viruses.

"Every single year, we will have wildlife-originated influenza viruses in the poultry population, and I'm sure there will be a time when a virus similar to H5N1 will pop up," Dr Soares Magalhães said.

"There's a lot of naive poultry populations out there, and this gives a lot of opportunities for these new emerging viruses to really be devastating.

"Everyone is expecting a big resurgence in the next few years."

The southern German state has also imposed a lockdown on all districts

Farm lobby calls for chicken import ban after bird flu outbreaks [BusinessWorld Online, 17 Nov 2021]

By Revin Mikhael D. Ochave

A FARMING industry association, the Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura (SINAG), said the government needs to ban chicken and other poultry imports due to outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), also known as bird flu, in Asia and Europe.

SINAG Chairman Rosendo O. So said a poultry import ban needs to be in place until the Department of Agriculture (DA) fully implements a system for first border inspection of all imported agricultural products.

“Will we wait for bird flu to enter the country and destroy the livelihood of families relying on the poultry industry? We should have learned our lessons from the African Swine Fever (ASF) and the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic,” Mr. So said in a statement Wednesday.

SINAG said bird flu outbreaks were reported in parts of Japan, Norway, and South Korea.

“South Korea reported an outbreak at a farm of around 770,000 poultry in Chungcheongbuk-do. Japan reported its first outbreak at a poultry farm in the northeast of the country. In Europe, Norway reported an H5N1 bird flu outbreak in the Rogaland region in a flock of 7,000 birds,” the group said.

SINAG said imports should not be allowed in the absence of a quarantine inspection system at the port of first entry.

“We are the only country that is not applying the global standard of quarantine inspection at the port of first entry of any imported food, food products and agricultural commodity to ensure food safety and public health security,” Mr. So said.

The DA is set to establish the first commodity examination facility for agriculture at the Subic Freeport Zone, which will subject all agricultural and food imports to 100% sampling and laboratory testing.

The DA’s original plan was to build such a facility at the Manila International Container Port, which has been delayed.

The DA recently implemented a ban on poultry imports from the Netherlands after it reported an outbreak of H5N1 HPAI.

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