Avian influenza reaches the district of Weilheim-Schongau: First cases confirmed in the municipality of Peißenberg
Created: 12/22/2021, 4:35 PM
From: Christoph Peters
Avian influenza has reached the Weilheim-Schongau district.
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Avian influenza has reached the Weilheim-Schongau district.
As reported by the district office, the exhaustion in the municipality of Peißenberg has been confirmed.
What poultry farmers now have to consider.
District - The majority of the chickens in the hobby poultry farming concerned died of avian influenza in a very short time. According to the district office, the remaining animals had to be killed by the veterinary office as part of the legally required animal disease control. In total, the population comprised around twenty birds. As part of the epidemiological investigations carried out on site, the veterinary office was able to find a dead wild bird as a possible source of entry for the pathogen. The laboratory examination of the dead seagull, which was carried out immediately at the Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety, also provided reliable evidence of the virus on Wednesday, the authority said.
"The case of the found bird shows that we must assume that the pathogen has already spread within the wild bird population in the Weilheim-Schongau district," says Jens Lewitzki, the head of the veterinary office.
“The transmission of the disease from wild birds to the affected livestock population can be seen as certain.
The greatest caution now applies to all other poultry farmers. "
From now on, kept birds are compulsory
Because of the high risk of further spread of the pathogen, in addition to the measures to increase biosecurity that had been in place since the beginning of December, it was now mandatory to arrange stalls in private and commercial poultry flocks. The Weilheim-Schongau veterinary office therefore urges all poultry farmers - including hobby farmers - to counter the acute danger for the birds kept by consistently implementing the current stable requirement. By consistently adhering to the measures, contact between wild birds with domestic and farm poultry should be avoided in order to prevent further introduction into the holdings.
"Watch your animals carefully," says Dr.
Sabine Tralmer, who heads the animal health department at the veterinary office, to the poultry farmers in the district.
"If unusually high animal losses occur in a short period of time - three or more animals in a population of up to 100 animals within 24 hours - contact your veterinarian immediately." According to Dr.
Tralmer the strong decrease in feed or water consumption, as well as the strong reduction in laying performance.
In case of
If an epidemic disease is suspected, the Weilheim-Schongau veterinary office must be informed immediately.
Contact by phone at 0881/6814444 or by email at vetamt-wm@lra-wm.bayern.de
Further information is available on the website www.weilheim-schongau.de or at www.lgl.bayern.de under “Avian influenza”.
On the district website, under the menu item “Avian influenza in Bavaria”, information is also provided about the current status of the animal disease and other current requirements for the Weilheim-Schongau district.
