The World Animal Health Organization (OIE) sounded the alarm as to the multiplication of acute avian influenza households in Europe and Asia.
In China, 21 human infections by the H5N6 avian influenza subtype were reported while South Korea announced the discovery of a fireplace on a farm of around 770 thousand chickens in Chungcheongbuk-Do.
The Japanese Ministry of Agriculture also announced the appearance of a home on a poultry farm in the northeast of the country.
In Europe, Norway reported an H5N1 avian flu home in the Rogaland region in a herd of 7 thousand birds.
The Belgian government has also put the country on alert in the face of the growing threat of avian flu, and ordered poultry to be kept inside their cages, after having identified a highly pathogenic type of avian influenza in a wild goose near Antwerp. A similar measure was adopted by France.
