Highly pathogenic avian influenza has unfold to a seventh poultry farm close to Melbourne, the federal government of Australia’s Victoria state stated on Monday.
Six of the properties have an H7N3 flu pressure and a seventh has an H7N9 pressure, it stated. Neither is the H5N1 sort of avian flu that has contaminated billions of untamed and farmed animals globally and raised fears of human transmission.
“Restricted and control areas are in place surrounding all infected premises,” Victoria’s agriculture division stated in a press release.
The contaminated properties embrace six egg farms and a duck farm. Around 1 million chickens, roughly 5% of Australia’s egg-laying flock, have been or shall be killed at affected farms to include the virus, the federal government stated final week.
There has not but been any scarcity of eggs, although some retailers have put in place limits on purchases.
Before the newest circumstances, the primary of which was reported final month, Australia had skilled 9 outbreaks of extremely pathogenic avian influenza since 1976, the federal government says. All had been contained and eradicated.
Authorities say duck and hen eggs and meat stay protected to eat.
Source: www.anews.com.tr