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The image in the Rudynai forest enraged winter entertainment enthusiasts – dead chickens were thrown here, and in the bag there was a dead rabbit.
Officials from the Šilutė Division of the State Food and Veterinary Office (SFVS) collected dead birds and sent samples for analysis for avian influenza. They ask for feedback from people who know more about how to get rid of scabies in dead animals.
As if the problem were still small, bird flu is approaching the Pomeranian region. Several dead swans in the Klaipėda district were investigated as being infected with bird flu.
Respond to those who know more
Last weekend, when the first snow fell, everyone ran into nature to enjoy the winter. However, not everyone was in the mood after those picnics and they remained as excited as they were in preparation for them. And where will you stay if you find a bag of dead chickens and other animals while walking through the woods? ..
“Today I was unpleasantly surprised by the find in the Rudynai forest: a cat was killed, some chickens were dead and there was still a bag full of dead chickens next to it. What are you doing, people?” Šilutė wrote in the popular group from Facebook Šilutė.
The case was made public on a social network and reported to the SFVS. Vytautas Jasaitis, the head of the Šilutė branch of this service, the state veterinarian, said specialists who went to the specified location found 11 dead broilers and a hen, as well as a dead rabbit.
Chicken carcasses were collected, samples were taken and sent to the laboratory of the National Institute for Food and Veterinary Risk Assessment (NMVRVI) for avian influenza testing. And while the investigation is ongoing, SFVS officials are also requesting the residents’ help: if you have seen or know who may have done it, please inform the Šilutė branch of the SFVS Klaipėda Department by phone, which is indicated at the end of the Article.
Šilutė News recalls that a similar case in 2016 was also recorded in the Traksėdžiai desert. Then a man walking through the woods found 5 dead chickens, they were also tested for bird flu.
These chicken carcasses were later collected by veterinarians for avian flu testing.
Klaipeda swans d. avian influenza detected
The SFVS Šilutė Division informs the poultry farmers that on January 8. Investigations by NMVRVI revealed that the 4 dead mute swans found in Klaipėda and Raseiniai districts were infected with the H5 strain of avian influenza.
Upon further investigation, a highly pathogenic virus (H5N8 subtype) was detected in the carcasses of three birds. The case of this subtype of avian influenza has been confirmed for the first time in our country in a poultry farm, where 27 birds (chickens, turkeys, geese and ducks) are raised for their own needs.
“The risk of bird flu entering the Pomerania region is increasing,” said V. Jasaitis, director of the SFVS Šilutė branch.
Highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry farms in 2020 established in 16 European countries. The largest outbreaks occurred in Hungary (273), Poland (51), France (35), Germany (29), and the United Kingdom (15). In other countries, isolated cases of this strain of avian influenza have been reported: 9 in the Netherlands, Bulgaria, and Ukraine, 3 in Slovakia, 2 in Denmark, Sweden, the Czech Republic, and Romania, and one in Belgium, Ireland, and Croatia.
It is important to follow the safety requirements.
In case of threat of bird flu, V. Jasaitis reminds poultry farmers that poultry can only be released in areas fenced off from all sides, which do not come into contact with natural or artificial bodies of water.
In addition, they should not be irrigated by surface water, bird waterers and forage should be kept indoors or in poultry houses so that they are inaccessible to wild birds, which are the main vectors of the virus.
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