Outbreak of H5N8 bird flu in some European countries

The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said some European countries have reported outbreaks of bird flu.

The bird flu outbreak broke out while France took emergency measures to prevent the H5N8 virus from seriously affecting farms.

According to OIE, Germany, Austria, Croatia and Switzerland have made official reports of bird flu outbreaks , raising concerns that wild birds and poultry are infected with this particularly dangerous virus strain.

This virus is highly infectious in poultry.

In a report, the French Ministry of Agriculture said the H5N8 strain was found in wild birds in Hungary, Poland, Germany, Croatia, the Netherlands and Denmark. Austria and Switzerland on November 10 applied preventive measures to prevent the disease from spreading to domestic poultry after discovering that the ducks in the area of ​​Lake Constance were infected with H5N8 virus.

The Dutch government earlier this week also carried out similar measures when asking farm owners to confine their poultry after detecting avian influenza virus in the country.

H5N8 is a highly contagious virus in poultry , but has never been reported to infect humans. The virus was discovered in several European Union countries (EU) in 2014 and spread to domestic poultry.

Earlier, France, the largest agricultural producer in the EU, had imposed strict controls and banned the processing of duck and goose for a while in the country's 17 regions to prevent bird flu outbreak. play.