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Avian influenza has been found in other companies in Westphalia.

After the outbreak of the animal disease in a farm in Delbrück (Paderborn district), 30,000 pullets must be killed, as the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection announced on Monday.

Around 150 animals from Delbrück in East Westphalia, which were delivered to a hobby owner in the Warendorf district, were also affected and had to be killed.

The responsible Friedrich Loeffler Institute has yet to determine which type of avian influenza virus is involved.

A highly contagious variant of bird flu was previously found in turkeys in Eslohe in the Hochsauerland district on Friday.

5700 animals were killed as a precaution.

In all three districts, surveillance zones were immediately set up around the farms affected.

In the monitored area around Delbrück alone there are more than 100 poultry farms with around 648,000 animals.

Transport bans for poultry and poultry products as well as stricter hygiene measures then apply.

The zone extends into the Gütersloh district.

With officially confirmed evidence, the surveillance area becomes a restricted area in which all poultry farms are checked very closely for the virus.

In addition, birds have to stay in the barn.

Adjacent to the Eslohe eruption in the Hochsauerlandkreis, the restricted area there extends into the Olpe district.

The poultry density in the area is, unlike in parts of eastern Westphalia, comparatively low, according to the Lanuv.

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At the beginning of the month, avian influenza outbreaks were detected in stables in the Gütersloh district, at a hobby owner in Paderborn and in the Minden-Lübbecke district.

As a precautionary measure, compulsory stables were imposed for the entire Detmold administrative region.

These as well as the restricted areas around the affected courtyards continue to exist.

According to Lanuv, the measures can be gradually scaled back no earlier than 21 days after the first appearance of avian influenza, provided that no more cases occur there.

This year it is a variant of the avian influenza virus that is particularly contagious for the animal population, said a spokesman for Lanuv.

The outbreaks, however, hit well-established structures at the veterinary offices.

"This means that the situation is still easily manageable," the spokesman continued.

Since autumn there has been a wave of avian plague emanating from wild birds, especially with the highly contagious H5N8 virus.

14 federal states are affected, and avian influenza has been officially identified in more than 120 herds.