13.11.2016

Israel reports a case of avian influenza H5N8 in heavy breeders, in Hefzi-Ba (North part of Israel).
The flock is 21 weeks old.
40,000 chickens would now be culled. 
Two months ago FAO issued a warning that H5N8 avian influenza virus had been detected in wild birds in Tyva Republic in southern Russia and would likely spread in a south-westerly direction with the autumn migration of waterbirds.
These recent detections of H5N8 in wild birds and domestic birds are additional evidence of the role of wild birds in the long-distance movement of H5 HPAI viruses from one stopover location to another along their migration routes. 
The first reports of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N8 virus date back to surveillance in live poultry markets in China in 2010 (Y-J Lee et al., 2014).