PRO/AH/EDR> Avian influenza (149): UK, HPAI H5N8, wild bird 1st rep

Avian Influenza H5N8 — United Kingdom
The 1st finding of an infectious strain of avian flu in a UK wild bird has been confirmed in Carmarthenshire.
The H5N8 strain found in a wild duck at an estuary near the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust (WWT) Llanelli Wetland Centre is the same which hit a turkey farm in Lincolnshire last week [the 1st outbreak of HPAI H5N8 in the UK in 2016, reported to OIE on 17 Dec 2016; see archive no http://promedmail.org/post/20161219.4710246].
The centre said it had closed “as a precautionary