

It also instructed the general public to buy poultry meat and eggs only at regulated selling sites, avoid buying unmarked and unpackaged eggs, and consume the cooked meat and eggs only. That same day, Israeli media reported that about 100 cranes had died in a bird flu outbreak in Hula Lake in a nature reserve in northern Israel.

The center is staffed and provides answers on Sundays through Thursdays between 7AM and 14PM Israel time. The ministry called on breeders to keep birds indoors to reduce the risk of infection from wild birds and quarantined all coops within 10 km of the latest two outbreaks. Over 17 million birds have died or been culled due to the bird flu outbreak in the US. With the latest two turkey farms, bird flu outbreaks have been reported in nine poultry farms throughout Israel in recent weeks. A bird flu outbreak has killed more than 2,000 wild cranes on a reserve in northern Israel, an unusually high toll for the seasonal flu, the parks authority said Sunday. Over 5,000 migratory cranes have died due to the virus in a continuing outbreak in the. The first outbreak occurred among 25,000 turkeys in three coop structures at a turkey farm in the village of Magal near the barrier wall built by Israel in the occupied West Bank, said the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in a statement on Tuesday.Ī second outbreak was detected among 25,000 turkeys for breeding in three coop structures in the southern village of Be'er Tuvia, the ministry said. The outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in Israel triggered a state of emergency after multiple cases were detected. Israel’s National Security Council has assumed control of a massive bird flu outbreak in the Galilee, which scientists warn could become a mass disaster. Japan has been grappling with a record outbreak of avian flu in recent months, putting strain on the supply of poultry and sending the price of eggs soaring. Jeruasalem, Jan 4 (UNI) Israel said that it has detected pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza outbreaks at two more turkey farms in the country.
