“We are trying to see if there’s any other solutions,” Naveh said. After over 2,000 wild cranes were killed due to bird flu in Israel, reports claim authorities have are planning to cancel the hunting season to ensure the outbreak does not spread to humans. The cleanup is going more slowly than expected. There was no immediate information about infections among people, it said. More than 5,000 cranes have been killed by a massive avian flu outbreak in Israel that authorities warn is the worst blow to wildlife in. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's office said officials from the agriculture, environment and health ministries were monitoring the situation. Egg prices will fall nearly 30 this year, USDA says. The last cases of bird flu in Israel were discovered in two wild birds in April and May, when a Eurasian Sparrowhawk and a.
ISRAEL BIRD FLU OUTBREAK UPDATE
"They might be starting to get over this. Large bird flu outbreak killed over 1 million birds last year in Israel. Join Yoav Perlman and Nadav Israeli of BirdLife Israel for an update on the Bird flu outbreak in the Hula Valley that has killed thousands of wintering cranes. Michaeli said the death toll among cranes appears to have stabilized in recent days. Israeli media carried photos of workers in white hazmat suits collecting crane carcasses after the birds were first found to be sick about 10 days ago. Michaeli said it is believed that the cranes were infected by smaller birds that had contact with farms suffering from outbreaks. The OIE has been notified about an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a poultry farm in Israel. 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 A bird flu outbreak has killed more than 2,000. This year, an estimated 30,000 cranes stayed in Israel for the winter. The avian flu outbreak that has killed vast numbers of domestic and wild fowl in recent weeks in northern Israel has spread to a new farm, the Agriculture Ministry said Thursday. Yaron Michaeli, spokesman for the Hula Lake park, where the crane population is centered, said workers were removing the carcasses as quickly as possible, fearing they could infect other wildlife.ĭafna Yurista, spokeswoman for the Agriculture Ministry, said half a million chickens in the area were being slaughtered to prevent the disease from spreading.Ībout 500,000 cranes pass through Israel each year on the way to Africa and a small number stay behind, Michaeli said. September 7, 2023A new CDC study shows the number of reported avian influenza (AI) bird flu outbreaks in animals and infections in people are increasing worldwide.
“The extent of the damage is still unclear," she tweeted. Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg called the crisis “the most serious damage to wildlife in the history of the country.”
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