The Netherlands found a case of pathogenic bird flu in Puiflijk.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, AMSTERDAM – The Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Thursday (5/11) issued an order to destroy 200,000 chickens. The authorities find cases bird flu which is very pathogenic on a farm in Puiflijk City.
Culling was also carried out on poultry on other farms that were one kilometer from the exposed farm. This is the second time on Netherlands recently after the first detected cases of bird flu appeared in wild birds.
The farm in Puiflijk affected by the bird flu case is within a three kilometer radius of the location of the first case. The first location is 30 kilometers from the border with Germany, near the city of Nijmegen.
Other farms have been tested to detect any cases of the same infection. Authorities prohibit moving poultry within a 10 kilometer radius.
The risk of transmitting the H5N8 bird flu virus to humans is considered low. But the World Health Organization (WHO) said the virus had spread to migratory birds, then spread to domestic birds.
Poultry farmers in the Netherlands have been asked to keep their livestock in cages, to prevent transmission, until further notice.
The poultry sector in the Netherlands is worth around 1.6 billion euros (equivalent to IDR 27 trillion), with 2,000 farms and 10,000 workers. The country is Europe’s largest exporter of chicken and eggs.
Apart from the Netherlands, on Monday (2/11) Britain also issued an order to destroy 13,000 birds at a farm in Frodsham, Cheshire, after detecting cases of bird flu there.
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