Australia : Another bird flu outbreak near Young

Via ABC News :

" The NSW Department of Primary Industries says there's been a second outbreak of bird flu (avian influenza) near Young, in south-west New South Wales.

It says the outbreak is likely to have been passed on from the first outbreak in the area last week, where culling of 400,000 chickens has just been completed.

Initial testing at the Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute confirmed the virus earlier today and the infected property has been placed under strict quarantine.

The department says tests are being carried out to try to confirm the origin of the latest incidence, but it's the H7 strain, not the H5N1 strain that's dangerous to humans."

Hong Kong bans import of poultry and poultry products from Province of Friesland, Netherlands

Press release from CHP :

" The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced today (August 6) that in view of a notification from the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) that there have been outbreaks of low pathogenic H7 avian influenza detected at a poultry farm in the Province of Friesland in the Netherlands, the import of poultry and poultry products (including poultry eggs) from the province will be banned with immediate effect.

A CFS spokesman said about 10 000 tonnes of frozen poultry meat and 2.4 million poultry eggs from the Netherlands were imported into Hong Kong in the first five months of this year.

The import ban on the same items from the village of Zeewolde and the Province of Utrecht have been in effect since March 20 and June 4 this year respectively, he added."