The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has launched a brand new interactive map of reported wild chook mortality and findings of avian influenza in wild birds and wild mammals.
The division has additionally launched an interactive dashboard permitting the general public to discover findings of chook flu in wild birds from the Animal and Plant Health Agency’s (APHA) surveillance programme.
The map and dashboard might be up to date weekly, the division mentioned. Collection data and take a look at outcomes might present as pending for recent experiences.
Anyone wishing to view the map can customise it by choosing from the layer listing which map parts they need to show.
A time slider may also be used to show knowledge from a specific time interval.
Bird flu in wild birds
Defra has practical data to assist land managers, the general public and ornithological and environmental organisations of their response to the rising menace of chook flu.
The mitigation technique for chook flu in wild birds in England and Wales explains how these teams, along with the federal government and its supply companions, can cut back the impression on wild chook populations while defending public well being, the broader setting and the agricultural economic system.
Landowners, native authorities and different organisations are suggested to obtain and print chook flu posters to show on web site when there’s a danger of chook flu or if chook flu has been detected within the space.
Dead wild birds will be reported by way of Defra’s web site.
Kept birds
In the UK there have been 207 confirmed instances of extremely pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 pressure within the 2022 to 2023 outbreak season:
- 160 instances in England;
- 38 instances in Scotland;
- Eight instances in Wales;
- One case in Northern Ireland.
There have been 294 instances of the H5N1 pressure of chook flu in England because the outbreak began in October 2021.
