Highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak on Dutch farms, more than 35,000 poultry were culled

　　China News Service, Brussels, October 29 (Reporter De Yongjian) The Hague News: A highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak has occurred in the Netherlands, a major European exporter of poultry products. The farm involved is now under quarantine and more than 35,000 poultry have been culled.

　　According to an announcement issued by the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Administration on the 29th, the farm involved (with no other farms in a radius of 1 km) is located in a village in the eastern province of Gelderland in the Netherlands. The authorities confirmed that the farm had an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza. , And then culled nearly 35,700 poultry.

　　The announcement is called the prevention of the spread of the epidemic. The authorities have isolated the farms involved, and 9 other farms within a radius of 3 kilometers have been inspected for epidemic prevention. At the same time, another 25 farms within a radius of 10 kilometers have issued a "blockade order", requiring these farms to be closed from now on. Export poultry, eggs, meat, fertilizers and other products.

　　At present, the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Administration has not notified the source of infection and the chain of infection of the epidemic.

On the 20th of this month, the authoritative Dutch Institute of Biology and Veterinary Medicine of Wageningen University reported that after inspection of 6 dead mute swans found in the central region of the Netherlands, it was found that two of the swans had been infected with the highly infectious H5N8 avian influenza virus.

　　There are more than 2,000 poultry and egg farms in the Netherlands, with a net export of more than 6 billion eggs each year. It is recognized as a major exporter of poultry products in Europe, but the poultry industry has been hit repeatedly in recent years.

In October 2016, the H5N8 avian influenza virus was found in wild poultry in the Netherlands, and it quickly spread to poultry farms, bringing disaster to many farmers. The epidemic lasted for more than half a year before it subsided.

　　Misfortunes never come singly. In 2017, a "poisonous egg" storm broke out in the Netherlands.

An insecticide company in this country used toxic insecticides to kill insects on its farms, which turned the eggs produced by these farms into “poisonous eggs”, which in turn affected Belgium, Germany and many other countries. In the end, the Netherlands was forced to recall millions. A problematic egg, culling tens of thousands of poultry, economic losses of more than 30 million euros.

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