US EditionBird Flu Kills Hundreds of Storks in Spain
Four outbreaks have killed hundreds of migratory storks in Madrid; authorities report no poultry infections or serious human risk amid Europe's bird flu surge.
- Madrid's regional government said forestry agents in the central Madrid region detected four outbreaks and collected hundreds of dead migratory white storks, including more than a hundred in 24 hours.
- Migratory white storks arriving from northern Europe are thought to carry the virus amid a Europe-wide bird flu surge, with thousands of cases in 29 countries, the European Food Safety Authority reports.
- Miguel Higueras Ortega, head of forestry operations in Madrid, said, `Based on how the outbreak is behaving in Spain and across Europe, there is no serious risk to human health, as no cases of transmission to people have been recorded`.
- Madrid's regional government said no commercial poultry farms are affected and authorities are removing carcasses using strict biosecurity measures to prevent further spread.
- In recent years, highly pathogenic avian influenza has caused culling of hundreds of millions of farmed birds, disrupting food supplies as the European Food Safety Authority reports an unprecedented seasonal surge.
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Fiji Broadcasting CorporationHundreds of storks found dead near Madrid amid wider bird flu surge
MADRID, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Spanish authorities have detected four outbreaks of bird flu in wild birds in the central Madrid region, where forestry agents collected hundreds of dead storks over the past several weeks including more than a hundred in the past 24 hours. Read full story
The Community of Madrid has received on Thursday confirmation that there are four new outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the region. The Veterinary Central Laboratory has confirmed the presence of the virus in stork specimens that at the end of last week were found dead in the vicinity of the Manzanares River as it passes through Perales del Río and La Marañona, in the municipality of Getafe. This case is added to those of three o…
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