On the finish of final week, the federal agriculture minister mentioned that the present extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak in Australia has up to now been confined to the state of Victoria, and that the authorities there have the scenario underneath management.
Minister Murray Watt mentioned that businesses within the state have been overseeing the culling and destruction of poultry on website to make sure the an infection didn’t unfold additional. He confused that solely a handful of farms had up to now been affected, and that there was no imminent threat to the nation’s egg provide.
In current days, consultants have denied that there’s any fact to outlandish claims concerning the outbreak being made on social media, reported SBS.
As of June 17, Agriculture Victoria confirms there have been seven HPAI outbreaks within the state’s poultry.
Confirmed since June 12, the 2 newest outbreaks each contain the H7N3 virus serotype, and occurred on farms within the municipality of Golden Plains Shire. The primary affected a business premises with geese — the primary to contain birds different than hens/pullets — and the latest was one other egg farm.
These convey to seven the whole variety of HPAI outbreaks in Australia since mid-Could. All have been situated in Victoria. The H7N3 virus variant has been detected at six of those premises, all in Golden Plains.
Up to now, the H7N9 serotype has been recognized at only one farm, situated additional west within the state.
Avian flu developments in Asian poultry
Within the Philippines, the variety of areas reporting HPAI outbreaks throughout the final 90 days stays at six, in response to the Division of Agriculture’s Bureau of Animal Business. Only one outbreak is described as “on-going.” It includes a business quail flock within the Central Luzon area.
In line with the most recent official notification to the World Organisation for Animal Well being (WOAH), authorities in Japan report that motion restrictions have been lifted in reference to the latest outbreak in poultry. In the course of the second week of March, presence of the H5N1 HPAI virus serotype was detected in a flock of greater than 57,000 laying hens in central Honshu. It was the eleventh HPAI outbreak in Japan since November of final yr.
In line with separate WOAH notifications, 21 wild birds in Japan examined constructive for a similar virus variant throughout the month of April, and two extra for the H5N5 virus group.
3 extra human circumstances of influenza linked to birds
Within the Western Pacific area, the World Well being Group (WHO) was knowledgeable of three additional human infections with the avian influenza A viruses throughout the second week of June. All three circumstances have been in mainland China.
Of the 2 newest circumstances to check constructive for the influenza A(H9N2) virus, the latest was in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Area with signs beginning on Could 2. This introduced the area’s whole circumstances to 101, together with two deaths, since 2015. Of those circumstances, 98 have been reported in China.
The next week, the influenza A(H5N6) virus was detected in a affected person in Quanzhou in Fujian province. Of the 92 circumstances within the area linked to this virus variant since 2014, 37 have died, in response to WHO.
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