First report of avian infuenza in Spain
8 January, 2022
The HPAI H5N1 strain has now hit Spain. The influenza virus was detected in four swans and a stork that were found dead in the Segre river in Lleida, Catalonia.
For now, the National Avian Influenza Surveillance Programme in Spain has decreed that the outbreak should not lead to commercial restrictions on the movement of live birds or their products, but it has increased its surveillance of wild birds within a three km of the site, in addition to implementing additional controls on the poultry farms within ten km of the river.
