Secretary of state Of the Dam of Economic Affairs has poultry farms urgently called for extra hygiene measures to take. Thus, the number of visitors to companies are reduced to a minimum, he writes to the Second Room.
Hungary came on 27 October with a notification, Poland on november 7, Germany on 8 november and Austria today. In Hungary, on november 3, infection with H5N8 determined by a kalkoenenbedrijf.
Cadavers
poultry farms in the Netherlands, the NVWA warned when they are symptoms of the disease. If there are multiple wild water birds dead in one place be found, that may be an indication of avian flu.
Farmers and, for example, hikers in nature, is strongly discouraged dead birds to touch. There are no indications that people with the H5N8 bird flu can become infected, but that can not totally be excluded, writes Dam to the Room.
Introduction
The main purpose of the ophokplicht is to prevent the virus from nature in commercial buildings and kippenstallen yourself. That is the “threat”.
Secretary Of state Dam, Erasmus Medical Centre asked for this autumn, specific species of wild water birds actively follow. That can, according to him, additional yield information about the spread of the H5N8 virus in the Netherlands.
Effectively
The Dutch Union of Poultry is satisfied with the measures that the secretary of state has promulgated. The bond is confident that the ophokplicht effective and expects that all poultry farms the warnings seriously, and will do their best to combat the spread of the virus.
The secretary of the association says that the hygiene is totally to be respected. “Alertness was the last time some slack,” says secretary Jan Chunk. The bond already knew a few days that the avian influenza virus from Eastern Europe began to spread, also in this direction.
the Netherlands has a large poultry sector. In 2014 it was estimated that there are 105 million chickens and broilers.
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