2011年3月25日讯 荷兰官方发布消息说，在齐兰省卡佩罗市辖区内的养鸡场发现有家禽感染禽流感病毒。该疫情病原为H7禽流感，但病毒亚型尚未确定。荷兰农业部官员还强调该低致病性毒株有可能变异为高致病性毒株。

根据欧盟法规，荷兰有关部门将对该鸡场127500只鸡进行捕杀，并且已经对该鸡场半径1公里内所有的禽肉、蛋、饲料、粪便、垫料进行了封锁，禁止流通。

据荷兰农业部称，野生禽类很可能是此次感染的来源。早在2003年，荷兰爆发了H7N7禽流感，导致25000000只家禽被扑杀。

近期亚洲、欧洲多地区出现禽流感疫情。希望广大鸽友引起足够重视，尤其是公棚。公棚内不可饲养家禽，做好护理和保健、疫苗接种是行之有效的防制方法。

Bird flu strain discovered in the Netherlands

//25 Mar 2011

A H7 strain of bird flu has been discovered on a poultry farm in the Netherlands, the Dutch government has confirmed.

The bird flu strain was detected at a poultry farm in the municipality of Kapelle, located in the province of Zeeland, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation acknowledged in a statement.

The Ministry stated that the outbreak involved the H7 variant but that the exact subtype of the bird flu virus was not yet known, and noted that the low pathogenic variant is able to mutate into a highly pathogenic variant.

In compliance with European rules, all 127,500 chickens at the poultry farm will be culled immediately and a movement ban applying to poultry, eggs, poultry manure, poultry litter and poultry food for a radius of 1 kilometer has been announced.

Wild birds are the likely source of infection according to the Ministry. In 2003, the Netherlands was hit by an epidemic of the H7N7 bird flu strain, resulting in the cull of more than 25 million birds.