Category: bird flu

There has been another outbreak of bird flu in another turkey farm in Lincolnshire and another in another Pheasant farm in Lancashire.  We are told that bird flu is widespread in wild birds across the country and yet the cases affecting farms are well and truly clumped around commercial farms in two discrete but well-separated…

Bird flu has been confirmed in a Pheasant ‘farm’ near Preston, Lancashire says Defra. The Pheasant is a non-native species which is reared in captivity in the UK and released in its tens of millions into the UK countryside each year.  Millions of Pheasant poults are imported into the UK and these represent a risk…

Two new confirmed cases of H5N8 bird flu in wild birds: a Buzzard in Somerset and a Canada Goose in Dorset. No new cases affecting domestic or commercial stock. In France, the country whose farmers have been hardest hit by bird flu, the mass cull of farmed ducks is beginning to come to an end…

There have been another four positive tests for H5N8 in wild birds in the last week: and Defra is still being cryptic about their localities.  These new records only amount to four birds apparently but the Dorset case involves Mute Swans when presumably it should involve a Mute Swan – this shows the normal attention…