INFECTED SWANS BROUGHT DANGEROUS TYPE OF BIRD FLUE: They reached Austria and Croatia!

In the area of Vukovar-Srijem County, in the village of Cerna, the occurrence has been determined of highly pathogenic avian influenza of subtype H5N8 in wild swans, according to the Croatian Ministry of Agriculture.

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Found virus, it is said, belongs to the species and it was not yet determined if it can transfer the virus to humans.

- Avian influenza is a highly contagious viral disease of poultry and other birds that can be manifested in different ways, depending on the virus' ability to cause disease (pathogenicity) and the affected species - said in the statement.

It most commonly affects domestic poultry, chickens and turkeys, while the ducks and geese develop mild symptoms of the disease.

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Wild birds that live on the water, especially wild ducks, are naturally resistant to disease and show no clinical signs of disease and therefore represent a major reservoir of the virus and the risk of spreading the disease to domestic poultry.

Austrian authorities in the province of Vorarlberg, discovered a dangerous variant of avian influenza type H5N8 in five young ducks. 

The Ministry of Health points out that it is, as in the cases in Germany, a highly pathogen variant.

Basis on the  analysis, Ministry ordered precautionary measures, and in order to protect domestic feathered animals in a certain zone around the affected territory, they imposed the obligation of keeping poultry indoors.

(Telegraf.co.uk / Tanjug)