This is reported by the Norwegian Food Safety Authority. – Once again, the poultry industry in Rogaland is in a demanding situation. For the first time we have two very serious bird diseases in the same area at the same time, says Inge Erlend Næsset, director of the regulations and control department at the Norwegian Food Safety Authority, according to a press release from the safety authority. The Norwegian Food Safety Authority received the test results on Friday evening. They do not know how the infection entered the poultry farm. In Klepp, bird flu was suspected on Thursday after several dead and weak hens on a farm. Therefore, 7,000 hens were euthanized, even though the test results were not clear. Photo: The Norwegian Food Safety Authority The Norwegian Food Safety Authority clarifies that the risk of infection to humans is assessed as very low, and that it is safe to eat eggs and poultry meat. Before the test results, news spoke with poultry farmer Kjell Hodne. His henhouse with 40,000 chickens is only a couple of kilometers from the farm where 7,000 hens were euthanized on Thursday evening and night due to strong suspicions of bird flu. – We border a nature reserve, and it is valid. A lot of birds, but also a lot of risk of infection with the migratory birds that land here, says Hodne. Kjell Hodne in front of the hen house, where he has 40,000 chickens. Photo: Arild EskelaNd / news Just over a year ago, 7,500 laying hens were destroyed on another farm in Klepp, when bird flu was detected for the first time in commercial poultry farming in Norway. The virus is spread by wild birds. Rogaland is a designated county in several ways. About 30 percent of all chicken meat and egg production in Norway takes place here, according to the director of agriculture at the State Administrator. Geir Skadberg, director of agriculture. Photo: private – It is also a county full of birds that both come, travel and are here, says director of agriculture Geir Skadberg. After Newcastle disease was discovered earlier this autumn, the Norwegian Food Safety Authority established a protection zone and an observation zone on Jæren. All domesticated birds must be indoors in these zones, and the poultry farmers must work as if there was an infection on the farm. Also Kjell Hodne, who is not taking chances now. – That’s enough now, with Newcastle disease and bird flu. We don’t want infection, says he, who escaped the outbreak of swine flu last year. Poultry farmer Kjell Hodne disinfects car tires on the news car after filming on the farm. This is so that any infection that may be present on his farm is not spread further. Photo: Arild Eskeland / news
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