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Offenburg (dpa / lsw) - After avian influenza has been detected in Strasbourg, owners in parts of the Ortenau district must also follow rules to contain the disease.
The district office announced on Tuesday that keepers in the affected zone would have to keep their animals in the barn.
In addition, movement bans apply to the birds and their meat and eggs.
In Strasbourg, the virus was found on Thursday in a small house with nine animals.
Avian influenza is also called avian flu.
According to experts, the animal disease is harmless to humans.
In March, an affected pullet farm in North Rhine-Westphalia had already delivered young chickens to numerous smaller farms in Baden-Württemberg.
Around 180 farms in the country received animals directly or indirectly from there.
Wild birds also brought the pathogen into a poultry farm in the Ravensburg district.
By April 8, an avian influenza outbreak was found in 64 farms in the southwest.
Around 1900 animals were killed or perished in the country as a result of the epidemic in March and April.
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