Avian influenza (bird flu): Cellardyke, Scotland incident April 2006
With no further cases of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 having been found, restrictions in the Wild Bird Surveillance Zone were lifted at 00.01 on 1 May 2006. Following a veterinary risk assessment, the Wild Bird Risk Area (east of the M90/A90 stretching from the Forth Bridge to Stonehaven) was ended at the same time.
- 20 April 2006 - Scottish Executive News Release: Easing of bird flu restrictions (link to Scottish Executive website)
- 13 April 2006 - Qualitative Risk Assessment: HPAI H5N1 in a Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus) in Scotland. A news release has been published by the Scottish Executive
- 11 April 2006 - News release: Statement by the UK CVO's on the swan DNA result
- 7 April 2006 - Qualitative Risk Assessment: HPAI H5N1 in a Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) in Scotland
- 6 April 2006 - News release: H5N1 avian flu confirmed in dead wild bird in Scotland
- 5 April 2006 - News release: Avian flu tests on dead wild bird in Scotland
Information is also available on the Scottish Executive website:
- Declaratory Order. An amendment, now in force, has since been made to this order
- Scottish Statutory Instrument for wild birds protection and surveillance zone
- Wild Bird Risk Area Declaration
- Map: Surveillance zone set up for Avian Influenza case in Fife
- Map: Wild Bird Risk Area around Wild Bird Location
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February 5, 2007