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New bird flu cases confirmed in Germany, suspected in France, Austria

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08:06, July 05, 2007

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Germany has confirmed bird flu cased in wild birds in Thuringia while
French and Austrian authorities have reported new suspected cases in wild
birds in their territories, said the European Commission on Wednesday.

In Germany, the national reference laboratory has confirmed highly
pathogenic bird flu virus in a black-necked grebe in Thuringia, close to
the border with Saxony, where the deadly H5N1 virus had been confirmed.

The French authorities have reported a suspicion of the H5 virus in three
wild swans found dead in the Moselle department, and are carrying out
further tests in the national reference laboratory to confirm the exact
strain of the disease.

A suspicion of highly pathogenic bird flu virus has also been reported in
the district of Gmunden, Upper Austria, based on clinical signs of the
disease in a number of wild birds. The Austrian national authorities have
sent samples from these birds to the national reference laboratory and
expect results on the strain of the virus in the coming days.

The commission said all three member states are applying the
precautionary measures set out under EU legislation. National
laboratories are working intensively to determine whether the outbreaks
were caused by the H5N1 virus, and are keeping close contact with the
Community Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza in Weybridge, Britain.

The precautionary measures consist of the establishment of a control area
and a surrounding monitoring area around the positivefinding.

In the control area, on-farm biosecurity measures must be strengthened,
hunting of wild birds is banned, disease awareness of poultry owners must
be enhanced, movement of poultry is banned except directly to the
slaughterhouse and the dispatch of meat outside the zone is forbidden
except where products have undergonethe controls provided for in EU food
controls legislation.

These latest wild bird cases follow the confirmation of H5N1 avian
influenza on two poultry farms and in a wild swan in the Czech Republic,
as well as cases of the disease in wild birds in Bavaria and Saxony,
Germany, over the last two weeks.

The deadly H5N1 virus was responsible for over 700 reported cases of
avian influenza in wild birds in the EU last year.

Source: Xinhua

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