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The Institute for Diagnostic and Animal Health has confirmed the presence of the H5N8 avian influenza virus in the samples taken from the laying hens from the farm of the Karin SRL company based in Seini, Maramure County, according to a press release of the from the National Sanitary Veterinary and Food Safety Authority (ANSVSA).
According to the ANSVSA, they established a protection and surveillance area around the outbreak, so that within a radius of at least 10 km severe measures of movement of persons, animals and means of transport were taken. In the protection area there are nine other commercial farms (8 birds and one of pigs), which are permanently monitored through clinical inspections and sample collection.
Together with the County Police Inspectorate and the County Inspectorate of Maramures Gendarmerie, the official veterinary sanitary services have restricted the access roads to all 9 farms.
At the same time, controls were intensified in the vicinity of the State Border Crossing Points located between Hungary and Romania, on the trade routes through which intra-Community exchanges with live birds, poultry meat and eggs of consumption and incubation between Romania and Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and other Member States with avian influenza.
