#ISRAEL BIRD FLU OUTBREAK UPDATE#
Sign up for the Animals farmed monthly update to get a roundup of the biggest farming and food stories across the world and keep up with our investigations. The European Commission has said it wants to allow eggs produced in the EU to be labelled as “free range” even if birds are kept inside. All of the outbreaks in Israel so far have been due to the H5N1 subvariant. Veterinary trials to test bird flu vaccines have started in France and the Netherlands, but there are question marks around the effectiveness of vaccinations against avian flu and whether vaccinated birds can still spread the disease if they are infected. The minister is operating an inter-ministerial command room to handle the continuing bird flu outbreak in the country. Year-round infections in the UK and Europe could force free-range chickens to be housed indoors. Since January 2021, there have been 186 outbreaks of H5N1 in mammals affecting 17 species including foxes, otters and seals, in addition to bears, mountain lions and skunks. A bird flu outbreak in northern Israel that killed over 5,200 cranes and forced the culling of half a million chickens is not yet under control, an expert said on Monday. “As autumn migration begins and the number of wild birds wintering in Europe increases, they are likely at higher risk of HPAI infection than previous years due to the observed persistence of the virus in Europe”, said Guilhem de Seze, head of risk assessment at the European Food Safety Authority. The dead birds were counted on Sunday at the Hula Lake Reserve, the Times of Israel reported. Outbreaks have also crossed the Atlantic Ocean, spreading from Europe to North America along migration routes and leading to millions of poultry being culled in the US and Canada.ĭisease experts say outbreaks could get even worse this winter. Around 5,000 wild cranes have been killed by a bird flu outbreak in northern Israel. Experts say all kinds of bird species have become infected now, causing the virus to remain. Israel’s National Security Council has assumed control of a massive bird flu outbreak in the Galilee, which scientists warn could become a mass disaster. In past years, outbreaks of avian flu declined with warmer weather and the end of migration by wild birds in the autumn and winter.īut outbreaks have continued across the UK and elsewhere in Europe this summer leading to fears that highly pathogenic variants of avian flu are now endemic in wild birds, creating a risk of infection all year.įrom June to September, the number of outbreaks in domesticated birds was more than five times higher than the same period last year.
The virus reached breeding colonies of sea birds on the north Atlantic coast, killing huge numbers. There have also been thousands of outbreaks recorded in wild birds, according to the latest update from the EU’s European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, European Food Safety Authority and the EU reference laboratory.
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