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The government order came into force across Hull, East Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, which have been made subject to an Avian Influenza Prevention Zone (AIPZ), to "mitigate the ...
A case of avian influenza, also known as bird flu, has been confirmed at a site in East Sussex. On Saturday, East Sussex County Council (ESCC) said the government's Department for Environment ...
All poultry and other captive birds in parts of Yorkshire and the East of England will have to be kept indoors from 23 December to prevent the spread of bird flu, the government has said.
Warwickshire, UK reported an outbreak on 8 November 2021. A 3 km protection zone and a 10 km surveillance zone have been established. [22] Avian flu was detected at a poultry farm in Akita Prefecture in northeastern Japan, prompting the culling of roughly 143,000 chickens, according to the prefectural government on 10 November 2021. [23]
Avian influenza, also known as avian flu or bird flu, is a disease caused by the influenza A virus, which primarily affects birds but can sometimes affect mammals including humans. [1] Wild aquatic birds are the primary host of the influenza A virus, which is enzootic (continually present) in many bird populations.
H5N1 is a subtype of the Influenza A virus, the viruses responsible for influenza in humans and many other animal species. [1] A bird-adapted strain of H5N1, called HPAI A(H5N1) for "highly pathogenic avian influenza virus of type A of subtype H5N1", is the causative agent of H5N1 flu.
The UK Health Security Agency says bird flu is "primarily a disease of birds" and the risk to the general public is very low. Follow Norfolk news on BBC Sounds , Facebook , Instagram and X . More ...
On November 7, the CDC reported asymptomatic bird flu infection in 4 workers at dairy farms. The workers didn't recall ever being sick but had antibodies showing that they had been infected with bird flu. [98] On November 22, the CDC confirmed the first case of bird flu in a U.S. child, being the 55th case of bird flu in humans in the U.S.