CIDRAP News
Date: May 04, 2015
By: Robert Roos, News Editor

Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu has resurfaced in Turkey for the first time

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since 2008, while the H5N8 virus has hit five more poultry farms in Taiwan, according to reports filed with the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).

In Turkey, H5N1 killed a backyard flock of 27 poultry in the north-central province of Kastamonu, said a report submitted by Turkish officials today. They didn’t specify what bird species were in the flock.

In response to the outbreak, officials destroyed 92 backyard poultry within 3 kilometers of the site and cleaned and disinfected the facilities where they were kept, the report said. Monitoring is ongoing within 10 kilometers of the outbreak.     [FULL  STORY]