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Publ: February 24, 2011 10:24 UpdatedUnt.se ? Enk?ping
Bird Disease suspected on new farm
Avian Newcastle disease virus may have spread further in Enk?ping area. This time it's a farm in Long Torah which has been cordoned off for investigation.
Preliminary test results from a pigeon in the yard indicate that the carrying Newcastle disease. The farm breeds, among other things, pheasants. It is unclear if the farm's poultry have been killed.
Last week, killed the entire 14 500 laying hens at a farm in Biskopskulla. The outbreak of Newcastle disease, which was the first among domestic birds in Upland, but last autumn it was discovered that pigeons in Enk?ping was carrying the highly contagious bird disease. People who become infected with the virus do not become very ill. For the people causing the virus occasionally conjunctivitis.