– 11/21/14, 15:11 – Source: Reuters
© anp. is bird flu at a poultry farm with 10,000 animals in the Overijssel Kamperveen broken. It is the third outbreak of the disease in the Netherlands.
Poultry farmers are holding their breath today after two and possibly three new cases of bird flu have been detected in Kamperveen, a completely different part of the Netherlands than the first two. The damage to the poultry according to the Dutch Union of Poultry Farmers (NVP) had risen to 100 million euros, mainly due to loss of export markets.
The chicken farmers had to fear a similar disaster in 2003, when due to the bird flu as cleared. about one third of the total poultry population in the Netherlands The direct damage was then certainly 300 million.
Today there were three companies which definitely or possibly avian influenza epidemic, when in Kamperveen in the north of Overijssel, near Zwolle. At one company, the disease is diagnosed in a second it is likely to avian and nearer third company is preventively culled. It is not yet clear which version it is, which is probably clear later today.
On a farm in the South Holland Ter Aar is started this morning with the gasification of 43,000 chickens. Here it is the H5N8 variant, where people in direct and close contact with infected poultry participate infected. They usually experience mild flu symptoms.
Last Saturday, the first case of bird flu was found on a farm with 150,000 hens in the Utrecht Hekendorp. Also there was about H5N8, and the same variant in recent times was also found in Germany and Britain.
“If the bird flu from spreading to the Veluwe is incalculable damage. That’s the heart of poultry into the Netherlands, “says Gert-Jan Oplaat, chairman of the Dutch Union of Poultry Farmers (NVP).
The Veluwe is between Kamperveen and the previously infected farms in Utrecht and South Holland. Much of the 2300 poultry farmers in our country is located there. Netherlands has a total of more than 100 million chickens.
“We’re talking at least about 400 to 500 million euros in damage to the sector,” the industry leader. Oplaat estimates the damage so far caused by bird flu at about 100 million.
In the damage estimates, it is mainly about damage caused by the loss of export markets. Exporters can not export poultry meat to countries outside the EU, because closing their borders to chicken meat from countries where bird flu has been detected. Automatically three months That automatism enter into force as soon as a case of bird flu reported to the World Animal Health Organisation.
For the chicken farmers whose barn should be eliminated, there is a special fee. Poultry farmers pay per hen a certain premium to a kind of insurance. The farmers on the need to slaughter claim an amount which they can buy new chickens.
The government believes it would be premature to talk about compensation for poultry affected by bird flu. Attention must first be directed at preventing further spread of the disease, said Deputy Prime Lodewijk Asscher after the Cabinet meeting.
Asscher understands the concerns of the poultry sector. But “for us it is important to take all necessary measures in the interest of agriculture, but also of public health to prevent such a virus can spread.”
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