Baku. Anakhanum Hidayatova – APA. The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) was notified of an outbreak of HPAI H5N8 on a turkey farm in Porto Viro in northeastern Italy, APA reports quoting World Health Organization.
A new outbreak of HPAI H5N8 was reported in the week beginning 15 December 2014 on a poultry farm in Niedersachsen, Germany. According to the OIE, two more outbreaks of HPAI H5N8 have been reported in the Netherlands.
In addition to the cases in poultry in Europe, widespread outbreaks of HPAI H5N8 were reported earlier in the Republic of Korea and Japan. No further outbreaks of H5N8 have been reported in the United Kingdom since November and the protection zone around the previous outbreak was lifted on 12 December 2014.
No cases of H5N8 in human beings are known, and the risk to the general public is extremely low. Nevertheless, national authorities are taking appropriate precautions, as some avian influenza viruses can infect humans.
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