Pfarrkirchen (dpa/lby) - After an outbreak of bird flu in the Lower Bavarian district of Landshut, there have been special measures in the affected area since Sunday to prevent further spread. The protection zone has a radius of three kilometers around the epidemic and there is a surveillance zone within a radius of ten kilometers, said the district of Rottal-Inn, which was also affected.
The measures in the protection and surveillance zone include, among other things, a notification and stable obligation. Poultry farmers have to inform the veterinary office about the number and location of their birds and lock them up in pens for the time being.
At the end of October, according to the Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety (LGL), bird flu was confirmed in domestic poultry in Bavaria for the first time in around six months. Accordingly, two cases were found in the Miltenberg district at the time.
In October, the Free State tightened its measures to protect against the spread. While according to LGL information, the bird flu in northern Germany had not completely disappeared even in the usually quiet summer months this year, there had been no confirmed cases in Bavaria since spring.
