LAST MINUTE : AVIAN INFLUENZA.(outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza )(Brief article)

From: Europe Agri | Date: March 24, 2006 | Copyright information

Following the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza on a game farm in Sweden, the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health agreeda to add a break-down of all the Swedish localities covered by the protection, surveillance and buffer zones to the Annex of Decision laying down measures for avian influenza in poultry. The zones cover the entire Kalmar Lan area where a case of H5 avian influenza was detected in a duck on 17 March. The Swedish authorities immediately...

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