That makes the Ministry of Economic Affairs announced Monday.
It is not yet clear whether it is the same as N-variant of the virus that has been established over the past two weeks at the five outbreaks in four different places. Earlier Monday it was announced that the fourth outbreak of bird flu at a poultry farm in Hamburg, of the type H5N8.
It has become clear that infections with avian flu in Hekendorp, Ter Aar and Kamperveen separately took place. Sharon Dijksma Secretary of Economic Affairs wrote to parliament Monday (pdf) that this is most likely based on the information that is on the table.
In the fifth company in Hamburg, where bird flu was found Sunday, still under investigation.
Only the outbreak of two companies in Kamperveen there is talk of a cross-contamination, light a ministry spokesman increasing. There is ongoing research on the strain of virus. Which can also in the same virus type are different.
New measures
Dijksma consults Tuesday on new measures to contain bird flu.
Currently inquiry into the role of wild birds in the spread of bird flu in the Netherlands. Which had so far not revealed the cause or the spread of bird flu. Sunday still Dijksma reported that 1,500 wild birds were examined with no virus type H5N8 was found.
The research is a collaboration of the Erasmus MC, et Dutch Institute of Ecology (NIOO) and point mainly on ducks, geese and swans. Erasmus MC announced that the infectious virus was found in two samples of droppings a total of 52 samples examined from a group of 150 ducks.
Genetically identical
According to the researchers examined the part “genetically almost identical to the virus that has previously been found in a poultry farm in Hekendorp”, also in the province of Utrecht.
The ducks in whom the virus is found, its wigeon. Which species occurs mainly in winter in large numbers in the Netherlands; their number will increase in the coming months, as the researchers expected.
Most wigeon occur in areas where a lot of water, particularly in the West, but also along the major rivers to the east. The ducks are intensively tested for bird flu.
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