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Highly pathogenic avian influenza returns to the EU

The EC says that the virus was suspected when abnormally high mortality was reported in a flock of geese. Further details of the case on the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) website suggest that two geese died on January 19 and that mortality rose significantly two days later. The entire flock of 3355 birds had been culled by January 23.

Diagnostic tests carried out by Hungary's national laboratory confirmed the virus to be the highly pathogenic H5 strain. Samples were being sent to the Community Reference Laboratory for avian influenza in Weybridge to determine if it was the H5N1 strain.

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