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On April 18, 2024, H5N1 was detected in ducks in Alappuzha district, Kerala. The District Collector decided to initiate the process of culling domestic birds within a 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) radius from the epicentre of the outbreak. [45] By May 9, 2024, district officials had culled 60,232 birds in Alappuzha.
The Avian Influenza Prevention Zone across England applied to all bird keepers, whether they had pets or a commercial flock. It meant owners had to conduct enhanced biosecurity measures, including:
Avian influenza, also known as avian flu or bird flu, is a disease caused by the influenza A virus, which primarily affects birds but can sometimes affect mammals including humans. [1] Wild aquatic birds are the primary host of the influenza A virus, which is enzootic (continually present) in many bird populations.
A 2005 electron microscope image shows the avian influenza strain H5N1. Bird flu is widespread in wild birds, and is causing outbreaks in poultry and dairy cows, and people who work around them.
Warwickshire, UK reported an outbreak on 8 November 2021. A 3 km protection zone and a 10 km surveillance zone have been established. [22] Avian flu was detected at a poultry farm in Akita Prefecture in northeastern Japan, prompting the culling of roughly 143,000 chickens, according to the prefectural government on 10 November 2021. [23]
The UK government has bought more than 5 million doses of bird flu vaccine to fight a potential pandemic as cases among animals increase.. The move comes amid an increase in the spread of the ...
As of the July 25, 2008 FAO Avian Influenza Disease Emergency Situation Update, H5N1 pathogenicity is continuing to gradually rise in wild birds in endemic areas but the avian influenza disease situation in farmed birds is being held in check by vaccination. Eleven outbreaks of H5N1 were reported worldwide in June 2008 in five countries (China ...
More than 81 million U.S. poultry and aquatic birds have been killed by avian flu across 47 states since January 2022, according to the C US is '18 months or so' away from finding bird flu vaccine ...