Hamburg dogs contingency be kept on leashes, as bird influenza spreads
Hamburg implemented a new order on Sunday as a H5N8 pathogen spreads opposite a country, for fear that dogs could widespread a pathogen serve if they come into hit with a passed bird. Cats are also now not available to ramble freely.
The rarely foul H5N8 pathogen is transmitted by birds on emigration routes streamer south for a winter. The FLI also believes that putrescent ornithology populations on farms could have possibly come in approach hit with putrescent waterfowl, or in some cases indirectly by feed and H2O reserve that had been soiled by furious birds.
The sub-type was initial identified in Denmark. Austria, Switzerland, Hungary and Poland have all also reported reliable cases.
Several countries – like Israel, Japan and South Korea – have now banned a import of German chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys.
In tools of Germany, rural authorities have ordered that all ornithology be kept caged so that they do not turn putrescent by furious birds.
On Tuesday, thousands of geese in Schleswig-Holstein were slaughtered due to concerns about a virus.
And ostrich farms have also been indirectly impacted by a virus.
Article source: http://www.thelocal.de/20161123/hamburg-requires-dogs-to-be-on-leashes-as-bird-flu-spreads