Annual Report on surveillance for avian influenza in poultry and wild birds in Member States of the European Union in 2020.

ABSTRACT: In 2020, Council Directive 2005/94/EC required EU Member States (MSs) to carry out surveillance for avian influenza (AI) in poultry and wild birds and notify the results to the responsible authority. Based on this, MSs, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom implemented ongoing surveillance programmes to monitor incursions of AI viruses in poultry and wild birds. EFSA received a mandate from the European Commission to collate, validate, analyse and summarise the data resulting from the avian influenza surveillance programmes in an annual report. This is the second such report produced using data directly submitted to EFSA by MSs. This report summarises the results of the surveillance activities carried out in poultry and wild birds in 2020. Overall, 24,768 poultry establishmen

SUBMITTER: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8647014 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature