Healthy Living

Germany national laboratory of S for l’ test of avian flu confirmed Sunday evening that three swans had examined the positive one for the constraint of the influenza of l’ bird H5N1 which is mortal with the human ones. This brings to six whole the d’ number; wild birds found died in the last days in the Bavarian city of Nuremberg which examined the positive one for the disease; five dumb swans and a goose of Canada.

Les tests were carried out in Germany federal institute of search for search for S for the health of the animals based at Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute (FLI) in Insel Riems, close to Greifswald in Germany nord-est.

Le president of the FLI, professor Thomas Mettenleiter, declared in a report/ratio laid out that the FLI n’ were not astonished by the return by the virus after having intended to speak about the demonstration to a farm about turkey in Böhmen Ende in the Czech Republic last week. The demonstration had like consequence the gathering of 6.000 turkeys to the farm. Nuremberg is with 120 kilometers of the border tchèque.

FLI the spokesman of S for the health of the animals, Reinking d’ Elke, says was feasible for him that the virus was introduced into l’ Germany by l’ intermediary of the wild birds of migration or it could have already been present in the German wild population d’ oiseau.

Des scientific with the FLI is embarassés as for why the demonstration s’ is produced in summer since the birds aren T with the size of their migration in été.

Selon Bavarian civils servant of health it n’ y have any danger with human demonstration actuelle.

Les local authorities established a cord around a sector in a radius of 4 kilometers of the two lakes where the infected birds were found; the sector is indicated a high-risk zone and the restrictions on the animal movements are in force. poultry

Les firm in the high-risk zone must keep their birds with l’ interior for l’ moment, no bird can be transported in or out of the zone, and the owners d’ pet are invited not to leave their cats and dogs to wander approximately freely in the secteur.

“We will supervise to see whether the virus draws aside by l’ intermediary of the wild birds in the remainder of l’ Germany,” said Prof Mettenleiter.

Le principal danger is that the animals and the birds will become infected; the risk with human is very small puisqu’ they should come into direct contact with the infected birds. It n’ y has any cause for panic, said Mettenleiter.

Cependant, like precaution, the shooting of the wild birds should be stopped has dit.

Germany to him; the last epidemic of S of H5N1 started in 2005 in Ruegen close to the Baltic and diffusion with 6 of Germany states of S 16, including Bavaria where the current demonstration s’ is produite.

La disease s’ is widespread birds with the mammals, including three cats and a marten. No human case n’ was brought back. The last case reported in Germany took place in l’ August; last year, in a swan in a zoo with Dresde.

Selon l’ the World Health Organization (WHO), there were 313 cases confirmed and the 191 deaths among the human ones in the whole world due to the constraint mortal of the influenza of l’ bird H5N1, majority being in Indonesia (100 cases, 80 deaths) and Vietnam (93 cases, 42 deaths).