320,000 chickens will die due to bird flu, fearing a shortage of eggs
Hundreds of thousands of chickens will be killed in addition to the 244,000 killed earlier this week in Moshav Margaliot, near Kiryat Shmona.
The Minister of Agriculture, Oded Forer, ordered measures to prevent the outbreak from expanding, and to open quotas for importing eggs in order to meet the shortage in the market in Israel.
Eli Ashkenazi
25/12/2021
Saturday, 25 December 2021, 18:15 Updated: 18:49
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In the video: Cranes in the Hula Valley after the outbreak of bird flu (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority)
Avian influenza continues to spread in the country, and coops close to Moshav Margaliot near Kiryat Shmona will have to kill 320,000 chickens for fear of becoming infected.
This, in addition to the 244,000 killed in the moshav earlier this week.
Upon receiving the report, the Ministry of Health isolated the infected chicken coops and stopped marketing the eggs, but the fear is of the possibility of infecting people near the chicken coops, and a shortage in the egg market in the country.
Agriculture Minister Oded Forer also discounted the need to prepare for the immediate importation of 100-70 million duty-free eggs, in order to combat the expected shortage.
In addition, a discount is taken to take action to prevent the spread of the flu to nearby localities.
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Fear of shortage of eggs (Photo: Shlomi Gabay, Shlomi Gabay)
The bird flu that struck the country led to the death of about 20% of the crane population in Israel and the death of 17,000 turkeys raised in Neot Golan coops.
Concurrent with the alarming picture of a steep rise in the number of dead cranes, fears have arisen that the disease will be passed on to humans.
The bird flu strain that came to Israel is considered a violent strain.
However only in exceptional cases can it infect humans.
The disease is considered severe when a person suffers from it, and may even cause his death, with a probability of about 50%.
In order for the avian flu virus to be passed from person to person, which happens very rarely, the virus needs to undergo a genetic modification that will buy it this ability.
Due to the fear that such a thing will happen, the guidelines are to avoid contact with birds, dead or alive, and especially with their secretions, feathers and blood.
To minimize the chance of this genetic change in a person who nevertheless comes in contact with infected birds, a preventative treatment of a drug called "Tamiflu" is given.
In recent days, students from the Hatzor HaGlilit school have been receiving this medicine, after stroking, despite the instructions, a sick crane during a trip to the Hula Reed.
Since that trip it has been decided to close the site to visitors as well as the neighboring Hula Reserve.
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