Enhanced measures put in place to keep bird flu out of flocks
Risk to humans from the virus is considered very low.
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Risk to humans from the virus is considered very low.
Half a million hens have been culled as a result of the outbreak.
The risk to humans is considered to be very low.
The risk to humans is considered to be very low but the public is advised not to handle sick or dead birds.
The measure was taken to prevent birds from contracting bird flu from wild birds.
Fears about the infectious virus have been spreading across Europe this year.
The H5N8 virus is highly pathogenic, and has been found across the UK and Europe in recent times.
It’s a precautionary measure after outbreaks of bird flu in the UK.
An outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N8 (bird flu) has been confirmed in Lincolnshire.
The birds were culled in the space of three days in Sweden and the Netherlands following a resurgence in the virus across Europe.
The birds had been imported from mainland China and one woman has been hospitalised.
The Agriculture Minister said poultry owners need to be vigilant.
However, the risk to the public is said to be “very low”.
No cases of humans contracting the disease who have eaten poultry or eggs have been recorded.
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Up to 20,000 chickens were killed after the deadly virus was found in poultry imported from mainland China.
Health officials have stressed that the risk to the population is extremely low.
The WHO say that so far there is no evidence of sustained human-to-human transmission.
A 20-year-old woman was found with the virus after presenting to hospital with flu-like symptoms.
The boy had carried dead and sick bird from a cage for food preparation before he became ill.
Scientists have long feared the virus would mutate into a form that transmits easily from person to person.
‘Influenza viruses constantly reinvent themselves’, says the head of the WHO. ‘No one can predict the future course.’
Police in China’s southwest city of Guiyang detained three people for claiming H7N9 had been found in a poultry market, according to police.
A man also passed away from the H1N1 influenza strain in Jordan over the weekend.
A temporary exclusion zone is lifted after further tests on a flock of game birds in Clonakilty show bird flu had not spread.
The Department of Agriculture said today that bird flu found in pheasants in Clonakilty is not the deadly H5N1 strain. However all biosecurity measures will remain in place in Barryroe, where results are expected on ill pheasants there.
The Department of Agriculture said today that there was no update as yet as to the cause of the outbreak in Cork.
The birds on the affected premises are being slaughtered today.
Researchers in the US and the Netherlands have developed new H5N1 strains which are more transmissible than the natural version.
The US government fears that details on a lab-made version of bird flu could be used by terrorists for biological warfare.
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