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Israel reports bird flu outbreak at turkey farm: OIEPARIS Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:39am EST (Reuters) - Israel has reported the first cases of a highly pathogenic bird flu virus in nearly three years in a village in the northern district of Hazafon, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday. The deadly H5N1 virus caused the death of 15,000 birds at aturkey fattening farm in Avi'el, south of Haifa, the OIE reported on its website, citing data submitted by Israel's ministry of agriculture. More than 140,000 birds will be culled due to the outbreak, of which 61,000 turkeys at a farm nearby where no clinical signs have been seen, the ministry said. "The culling of all the flocks is ongoing. Backyard birds in the village will also be culled," it said. High pathogenic H5N1 bird flu first infected humans in 1997 in Hong Kong. It has since spread from Asia to Europe and Africa and has become entrenched in poultry in some countries, causing millions of poultry infections and several hundred human deaths. (Reporting by Sybille de La Hamaide and Gus Trompiz, editing by Michel Rose) |
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Posted: January 24 2015 at 4:51pm |
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Bird flu spreads; 40,000 turkeys to be culledH5N1 virus emerges in ********-area kibbutz after outbreak in north caused destruction of 100,000 birds. Raanan Ben-Zur
The Agriculture Ministry began destroying 40,000 of the birds at the farm in response. Meanwhile, concerns arose that other farms in the area – in the towns of Elishema and Neve Yamin – had been affected by the disease
 Turkeys in the United States (Photo: AP) Inspectors from the ministry arrived at the farm in Magel following the initial suspicion and took samples for examination in a laboratory. The site was closed off after a positive result came back towards the evening. The discovery of the virus came less than a week after it emerged at another Israeli turkey farm.
The first case in Israel in nearly three years was found in a village in the north on Monday, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said.
The deadly H5N1 virus caused the death of 15,000 birds at a turkey fattening farm in Avi'el, south of Haifa, the OIE reported on its website, citing data submitted by Israel's ministry of agriculture.
More than 140,000 birds were to be culled due to that outbreak, including 61,000 turkeys at a farm nearby where no clinical signs had been seen, the ministry said.
"The culling of all the flocks is ongoing. Backyard birds in the village will also be culled," it said.
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