Berlin-Sana
Germany announced the detection of a new outbreak of the bird flu virus "H5N1" on another farm in the northeast of the country.
“The disease has been confirmed on a small farm in Hohenkirchen, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,” Reuters quoted the German Ministry of Agriculture and Environment as saying, noting that this is the third outbreak of the virus in the state.
On the 27th of last October, Germany detected the disease on a geese farm in the north of the country.
Avian influenza is usually transmitted from one country to another by migratory wild birds and is spreading rapidly in Europe, which has raised the poultry sector's fears of a repeat of an earlier outbreak that led to the culling of tens of millions of birds and imposed restrictions on international trade.
The World Organization for Animal Health announced yesterday that Poland had detected the virus in several poultry farms, with a total number of birds reaching 650,000, while the French government last Friday put the entire country on high alert to confront bird flu and extended an obligation to keep all poultry inside the barns.