The Netherlands will proceed with the slaughter of approximately 102,000 poultry
A worker at a poultry farm in Spain contracted bird flu in late September, in a rare case of the disease being transmitted to humans, and remained asymptomatic until he tested negative, Spain’s health ministry said Monday.
“On September 27, 2022, the National Center for Microbiology confirmed a case of avian influenza A (H5N1) in an asymptomatic man, who has already been tested negative,” the ministry said in its statement.
The infected person works at a poultry farm in Guadalajara, central Spain, where cases of bird flu were detected in poultry on September 17. He was put in isolation at home until he tested negative on September 28.
His only close contact was negative, according to the ministry’s statement, which stressed that “bird-to-human transmission is considered a rare phenomenon and human-to-human transmission is extremely rarer.”
In Spain “79 outbreaks were detected in wild birds and 36 in poultry farms”, according to the data of the Ministry of Health.
Meanwhile, the Dutch government announced today that it will proceed with the slaughter of around 102,000 poultry at a farm in the northern city of Kiel-Wideveer after the detection of a highly contagious strain of bird flu.
Fifteen cases of this extremely deadly form of bird flu were recorded in the Netherlands last month, following dozens of cases identified earlier this year.
France is also facing a resurgence of cases after experiencing its worst wave of bird flu earlier this year.
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