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Kiel (dpa / lno) - Agriculture Minister Jan Philipp Albrecht (Greens) considers further outbreaks of avian influenza in Schleswig-Holstein to be possible.
"The current avian influenza events are not over yet," said Albrecht on Wednesday in the state parliament.
"While new records of wild birds are made every day in all parts of the country, further outbreaks in domestic poultry holdings cannot be excluded, as the situation in other federal states shows."
The Friedrich Loeffler Institute continues to rate the risk as high.
Albrecht spoke of an immense burden on the poultry industry and the bird population.
"We have the most serious outbreak of avian influenza in Schleswig-Holstein," he said.
Animals had died of the virus every day for five months.
In the current epidemic in Schleswig-Holstein, avian influenza has so far been detected in ten farms with a total of around 134,000 animals.
Nationwide, more than 120 farms have now been affected.
In addition, around 17,000 wild birds have died in the north, and official records have been made for 533 wild birds.
According to the ministry, Schleswig-Holstein is the most heavily and most extensively affected federal state.
There is evidence for around 100 bird species - for example, around 3,000 of the 10,000 redwood sandpipers that wintered in the Wadden Sea died.
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Avian influenza, also known as avian flu, is an infectious disease that occurs primarily in waterfowl and other birds.
The arranged stalls are intended to prevent the disease from affecting domestic and livestock populations.
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Risk assessment by the FLI
General decree on biosecurity measures