H5N1 detected again in Cambodia

News from University of Minnesota – Dated 31 Jan, 2017.

Recently Cambodia reported its first H5N1 outbreak of the year, which affected backyard poultry. Cambodia’s veterinary authority reported that the virus is hitting more farms, with 2 provinces (Svay Rieng, Thom) reporting more outbreaks in poultry and wild birds. The most recent confirmed outbreak of the disease in the country was in May of 2016, in Kampot province.

H5N1 strikes Cambodian farms

News from WATTAgNet.com – BY JACKIE LINDEN ON FEBRUARY 6, 2017.

Cambodia’s veterinary authority has confirmed to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) an Avian Influenza-Highly Pathogenic (HPAI) outbreak caused by the H5N1 virus in a backyard flock. Cambodia’s H5N1 outbreak, its first since May 2016, struck backyard bird in Svay Rieng in the country’s southeast, on the border with Vietnam, the agriculture ministry said in a report today to the OIE.

The poultry owner reported poultry illnesses and deaths beginning on Jan 25, which triggered testing and an investigation. The virus killed 68 of 390 birds, with the remaining ones destroyed as a response step. Authorities also imposed movement controls and disinfected the affected area.

As well as this HPAI outbreak, a low-pathogenic avian flu of the H7N3 type has killed more than 90 percent of a flock of 4,000 village ducks in the province of Thom in central Cambodia.

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