Last Friday, December 29, highly pathogenic bird flu was again detected on a poultry farm in West Flanders. This concerns a propagation company in Veurne, which is located in the Alveringem surveillance zone, about 5 kilometers from the previous outbreak and less than a kilometer from the French border. The poultry farm’s approximately 33,000 hens and roosters were culled on Friday, December 29.
This was reported by the Belgian Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC). Around the outbreak the usual ones become protection zone (radius 3 km) and surveillance zone (radius 10 km) set. These largely overlap with the existing zones of Warhem and Alveringem. Since the Warhem surveillance zone, which was demarcated two weeks ago following a contamination in France, is now fully included in the existing Alveringem zones and the new Veurne zones, it was deleted on Friday, December 29. Due to the outbreak in Veurne, four additional poultry farms are subject to the measures of the zones.
In the new zones of Veurne, exemptions will come into effect from Wednesday 3 January 2024 for the removal of poultry for slaughter and hatching eggs, reports the Flemish interest group Landsbond Pluimvee. In the part of the Alveringem zones that overlap with the Veurne zones, the existing exemptions will be deleted until then.
Diksmuide protection zone has become a surveillance zone
On Thursday and Friday night, the Diksmuide protection zone was converted into a surveillance zone; The measures of a 10 km zone will now apply there. The final screening will be organized in this zone next week. If the results are favorable, this zone will be lifted as planned on January 7.
2024-01-02 13:59:17
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