Another outbreak of bird flu: aviary pheasant breeding in the Hodonín region
Another outbreak of H5N1 bird flu was confirmed in the aviary breeding of pheasants in the Hovoran cadastre. The State Veterinary Administration informed about it on Monday.
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During the Christmas holidays, the breeder reported the mass deaths of about a thousand of the approximately 6,000 pheasants kept in the local pheasantry. On-the-spot inspectors carried out investigations. They took samples from the dead birds and sent them to the State Veterinary Institute for examination. “The examination confirmed the H5N1 bird flu virus in dead pheasants. The pathogenicity of the virus is currently awaited, “said Petr Majer, a spokesman for the State Veterinary Administration, adding that the results of the virus’s pathogenicity should be available on Tuesday.
The remaining pheasants in the breeding are waiting to be killed in accordance with the legislation. “In view of the identified pathogenicity of the virus, a protection and surveillance zone will be defined around the outbreak and emergency veterinary measures will be taken,” the spokesman said. The number of outbreaks of bird flu in the Czech Republic is approaching 50 this year. However, the neighbors in Germany and Poland already have hundreds of outbreaks in poultry farms.
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The last time in the South Moravian Region was affected by the same subtype of bird flu and small poultry farming in Lednice in the Břeclav region. There, a breeder reported the death of eight hens a month ago.
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