Category: bird flu

The Scottish government announced today a case of bird flu in captive gamebirds near Glenrothes. in an email to stakeholders the Scottish government say: These gamebirds have never been wild and so can only have caught avian influenza on the establishment. and In light of evidence from the continent and ongoing high numbers of findings…

DEFRA’s latest upate on bird/poultry flu in wild birds shows they didn’t read Tim Melling’s excellent article on what we call Knot. Despite all this bird flu swilling around there haven’t been new outbreaks in poultry farms for quite a while – good! Likes(3)Dislikes(0)

A couple more cases in wild birds in the latest DEFRA update. Likes(2)Dislikes(0)

A few more cases in wild birds at the end of 2020 but another update is due very soon Likes(2)Dislikes(0)

We near the end of 2020 with a further rise in detected cases of avian flu in wild birds (affected counties shaded pink below), mostly swans and geese, and new cases in poultry in Devon and Norfolk (all cases this winter indicated with blue splodges below). Likes(8)Dislikes(0)