Gert van der Hoek
In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
07/12/2009
No bird flu in geese
Schwerin / Greifswald (dpa / mv) - is the suspicion of avian influenza in domestic geese after another
Investigations now completely resolved.
When the influenza virus that was discovered in the previous week in a routine sample
is the H6N1 pathogen harmless to humans, said the agriculture ministry in
Schwerin on Monday.
That's what the test results at the Friedrich Loeffler Institute on the Island of Riems. Even with these loose animals
Subtype of any disease. The lock of the affected geese attitude was repealed. The geese
and other poultry should be slaughtered in the field and held again, and markets.
http://www.ostsee-zeitung.de/nachric...ews&id=2635588
Suspected avian influenza - Operation locked as a precaution
No. 352 - 05.12.2009 - LU - Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Consumer Protection
On 05.12.2009 was published in the State Office for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries (LALLF)
in routine samples taken from a goose farming in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern avian
Influenza virus have been detected. To further clarify the samples are immediately in the National
Reference Laboratory at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute spent (FLI) on the island of Riems had been.
In the affected district, the necessary steps have been initiated. The operation was
closed as a precaution, contact herds are identified and defined the possible restriction sites.
Before taking further measures to the outcome of the investigation remains to be seen in the FLI.
In recent years, were repeated in the context of monitoring studies
Influenza viruses in wild birds and domestic poultry established. Was modified in November 2009 when
Domestic geese in Thuringia, a low-pathogenic influenza virus have been detected.
Comment: H6N1 doesn't seem to be totally "harmless" , people with a health risk should avoid close contact with the bird or their droppings.
http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=3209
Earlier this year H6N1 was found in the UK:
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=95416
No bird flu in geese
Schwerin / Greifswald (dpa / mv) - is the suspicion of avian influenza in domestic geese after another
Investigations now completely resolved.
When the influenza virus that was discovered in the previous week in a routine sample
is the H6N1 pathogen harmless to humans, said the agriculture ministry in
Schwerin on Monday.
That's what the test results at the Friedrich Loeffler Institute on the Island of Riems. Even with these loose animals
Subtype of any disease. The lock of the affected geese attitude was repealed. The geese
and other poultry should be slaughtered in the field and held again, and markets.
http://www.ostsee-zeitung.de/nachric...ews&id=2635588
Suspected avian influenza - Operation locked as a precaution
No. 352 - 05.12.2009 - LU - Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Consumer Protection
On 05.12.2009 was published in the State Office for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries (LALLF)
in routine samples taken from a goose farming in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern avian
Influenza virus have been detected. To further clarify the samples are immediately in the National
Reference Laboratory at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute spent (FLI) on the island of Riems had been.
In the affected district, the necessary steps have been initiated. The operation was
closed as a precaution, contact herds are identified and defined the possible restriction sites.
Before taking further measures to the outcome of the investigation remains to be seen in the FLI.
In recent years, were repeated in the context of monitoring studies
Influenza viruses in wild birds and domestic poultry established. Was modified in November 2009 when
Domestic geese in Thuringia, a low-pathogenic influenza virus have been detected.
Comment: H6N1 doesn't seem to be totally "harmless" , people with a health risk should avoid close contact with the bird or their droppings.
http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=3209
Earlier this year H6N1 was found in the UK:
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=95416
