Defra is being quite cryptic about the details of new cases of H5N8 but the RSPB has disclosed that cases have been found on its nature reserves at Frampton (Lincs) and Marshside (Merseyside). There is also a confirmed case in Gloucestershire. Updated information from Germany here. Thankfully, so far, there has only been one case…
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Bird flu
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The good news – no further outbreaks of bird flu in commercial poultry farms (just this one so far). The bad news – three cases of H5N8 confirmed in wild Wigeon (Somerset, Leicestershire and South Wales) and in a Peregrine Falcon in Scotland. This map is informative – it’s from the EU (remember them?…
Bird flu panic
If you are a poultry farmer with thousands of turkeys, or if you have a couple of hens in your garden, they need to be housed for the next month according to Defra (and the Welsh and Scottish governments too, but not Northern Ireland) to avoid encountering ‘wild birds’ carrying a new strain of bird…
Bird flu is back
Who would want to be Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs? Foot and Mouth, Bird Flu, badgers moving the goalposts, Ash dieback, floods and now more Bird Flu. The latest outbreak of bird flu in East Yorkshire is of a different strain from those of a few years ago (probably H5N8 rather…