25.06.2013

Low-pathogenic avian influenza H7N7 has been detected at a farm in Lower Saxony.

The case ia a LPAI H7N7 at a farm in Emsland in Lower Saxony, which was observed on 24 May. Four hundred birds of a flock of 13,406 were found to be affected. The flock has now been destroyed. A similar outbreak has been reported; it started nine days previously on another farm in Lower Saxony.