Of 15,450 susceptible birds on the three farms, the virus killed 376, with the remainder of the flocks stamped out as a control measure. The three outbreaks in Kano state began from Dec 21 to Dec 29, affecting facilities that raised pullets, broilers, and layers. The virus killed 7,973 birds, and authorities slaughtered the remaining ones to control the spread of the virus. For all four of the events, no outbreak source was found, but investigations noted poor farm biosecurity.ĭelta state's outbreak started on Dec 25 at a large commercial facility that housed more than 34,000 broilers, layers, and breeders. Meanwhile, the H5N1 virus recently struck four more poultry farms in Nigeria, one in Delta state in the south and three in Kano state, located in the north, according to two separate reports yesterday to the OIE. The 194 remaining birds at the facility, which also included pigeons, geese, and peacocks, were culled. The OIE also fleshed out some of the details on France's recent outbreak in Dordogne, detected after six hens died. It involved the H5N1 strain.įrance's outbreaks have been caused by a new highly pathogenic Eurasian H5N1 strain, as well as H5N2 and H5N9.Ī report to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) that includes Lot's outbreak said testing was triggered by the deaths of 39 Guinea fowl and that the remaining 1,211 birds at the farm will be destroyed to curb the spread of the virus.
#Hit the flocks update
The most recent update from France's agriculture ministry said the outbreak total stands at 66 today, apparently due to another detection in Landes for which no details were provided.įrench officials said the first outbreak in Lot department-the country's 65th-occurred at a farm in the town of Miers that housed 260 Guinea fowl, 280 ducks, 650 chickens, and 60 broiler hens, according to an official statement translated and posted by Avian Flu Diary, an infectious disease news blog. The pace of France's outbreaks has slowed since the events began in late November, but the country continues to report sporadic detections, with the 63rd and 64th outbreaks reported at the end of December in Dordogne and Gers, two departments that had earlier been affected by the virus. France's agriculture ministry today announced another highly pathogenic H5 avian flu outbreak in poultry, affecting another new area in the southwestern part of the country, raising the total so far to 66.Įlsewhere, Nigeria reported four more H5N1 outbreaks in its poultry sector, Taiwan reported 10 more outbreaks from two different highly pathogenic strains, and Hong Kong reported that tests on a dead egret yielded H5N6, the same strain that recently sickened two women-one of them fatally-in southern China.
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