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Apparently, bird-flu broke out again (Dutch) here in the Netherlands. While driving home yesterday, I did notice the signs like this, but hadn’t heard any news that day:

Sign that prohibits the transport of mammals, poultry, eggs and manure.

Coming home, I checked the news to find out that a new case of the bird-flu was discovered during a routine-check and appropriate measures immediately taken. As a precaution, the 25.000 chickens present have already been killed. It is now prohibited to transport poultry, mammals, eggs and manure through the territory where the case was discovered; this to reduce any spread. Maybe the recent heat-wave and the recent rainfall combined, created a good breeding place for the virus — I don’t know.

Now, if only this is just an incident and not the start of a new pending epidemic. It is stated this other (Dutch) article that the virus does appear in nature and that it isn’t strange that stock gets infected — apparently this case was the second recent case, too. At the first company however, the virus was no longer present so the chickens haven’t been killed there; apparently, the virus disappears, with a relative few sick or even dying chickens.

Bird-flu, Nature