Between September 10 and December 2, 2022, nearly 400 households were listed in the farms of 18 European countries, France, United Kingdom and Hungary in mind. The virus has also been detected more than 600 times in wild birds.
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Fifty million killed poultry … Europe has known the most devastating “foreign” epidemic for over a year, never observed on its soil, according to health authorities.
Between October 2021 and September 2022, “Europe was affected by the most devastating” IAHP) Influenza epidemic in its history, with 37 European countries affected, and more than 2,500 households Detected in the farms of the continent, can we read in a Report of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Union reference laboratory.
Losses in chicken, duck or turkey farms are, in reality, more important, because this assessment of 50 million Euthanized birds does not include the preventive slaughters made around homes, said the Health agency at the France-Presse agency. The epidemic has not decreased since September and the contaminations even redouble the approach of winter.
EFSA stresses that, “for the first time”, there was no marked separation between two epidemic waves, the disease having not reflected in the favor of summer. This fall, it has already been more virulent than last year at the same period, with a number of infected farms higher 35 %.
Between September 10 and December 2, 2022, nearly 400 households were listed in the farms of 18 European countries, France, United Kingdom and Hungary in mind. The virus has also been detected more than 600 times from wild birds, especially aquatic (ducks, swans), which may, according to this report, have contributed to the spread of the virus.
Following a request from the European Commission, the EFSA “currently assesses the availability of IAHP vaccines for poultry, and examines any vaccination strategies”. The results of this work, eagerly awaited by breeders, will be known in the second half of 2023.