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ECDC warns of Europe’s biggest bird flu epidemic | Health
Avian influenza season 2021-2022 is the largest in the history of Europe, with an unprecedented geographic expansion to 37 countries, including Portugal, warns the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) this Monday (in English).
Data released this Monday by a European organization indicates that bird flu highly pathogenic is “the largest observed in Europe” with a total of 2467 outbreaks in poultry, 48 million birds slaughtered in affected establishments and 187 detections in captive birds.
In addition, 3,573 cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza have been reported in wild birds, report continues European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and ECDC.
The European agency warns that, in addition to the number of reported cases, the “geographical scale of the outbreak is unprecedented” given that it stretches from the islands of Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago belonging to Norway, south of Portugal and east into Ukraine, affecting 37 countries in Europe.
No transmission from human
“Despite the exceptionally large number of recent cases in birds, as well as numerous transmission of avian influenza various mammalian species, no human transmission of the virus has been observed in the European Union and the European Economic Area in recent years,” the ECDC said in a statement.
The European Center says that only a small number of asymptomatic or mild symptomatic human infections have been reported worldwide, meaning that “the global risk to the population remains low, but somewhat higher for people with occupations.” contact with infected birds.
Influenza viruses circulating in animals such as pigs or birds can infect humans sporadically and can seriously affect public health, according to the ECDC.
An example of ECDC is the epidemics of H5N1 avian influenza in Egypt or H7N9 in Chinaor the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic, caused by a virus that was originally transmitted from pigs to humans.
“It is critical that clinicians, laboratory and health experts in both animal husbandry and public health work together and take a coordinated approach. Surveillance is essential to detect infections caused by the influenza virus as early as possible,” emphasizes Andrea Ammon, director of ECDC.
new rules
New guidance published this Monday by the ECDC highlights the importance of safety and health measures in workplaces where contact with animals cannot be avoided, to be intensified in situations where zoonotic influenza has been identified in animals.
In addition bird farms must periodically review their risk assessment and ensure that all necessary technical, organizational, maintenance and hygiene measures are taken to prevent infection of workers.
According to the guidelines, public health workers should also be alert to the need for testing for possible infection in people with respiratory illnesses and recent contact with potentially infected animals.
“Testing for zoonotic influenza should also be considered in patients with severe acute respiratory illness of unknown origin, as well as critically ill patients with previous animal contact,” the ECDC said in a statement.
At the end of August, the General Directorate of Food and Veterinary Medicine (DGAV) stated that in Portugal at that time there were 25 foci of infection from bird flu.
The first outbreak of avian influenza was reported on November 30, 2021 in a poultry house in the Setúbal region, and since then until August 29, 25 outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza have been confirmed, 17 of them in poultry, including commercial turkey farms , chickens and ducks, a private collection of poultry, poultry and city park birds. There have also been eight cases in wild birds.
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Vladimir Putin has delayed the invasion of Ukraine at least three times.
Putin has repeatedly consulted with Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu about the invasion, Europa Press told Ukraine’s chief intelligence director Vadim Skibitsky.
According to Skibitsky, it was the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), which is responsible for counterintelligence and espionage work, that put pressure on Gerasimov and other military agencies to agree to launch an offensive. .
However, according to the Ukrainian intelligence services, the FSB considered that by the end of February sufficient preparations had already been made to guarantee the success of the Russian Armed Forces in a lightning invasion.
However, according to Kyiv, the Russian General Staff provided the Russian troops with supplies and ammunition for only three days, hoping that the offensive would be swift and immediately successful.
The head of Ukrainian intelligence also emphasized the cooperation of local residents, who always provided the Ukrainian authorities with up-to-date information about the Russian army, such as the number of soldiers or the exact location of troops.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine caused at least 6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 7.8 million refugees to European countries, which is why the UN classifies this migration crisis as the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945). gg.). ).
At the moment, 17.7 million Ukrainians are in need of humanitarian assistance, and 9.3 million are in need of food aid and housing.
The UN has presented as confirmed 6,755 civilian deaths and 10,607 wounded since the beginning of the war, stressing that these figures are much lower than the real ones.
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Life sentence for former Swedish official for spying for Russia
A Stockholm court on Monday sentenced a former Swedish intelligence officer to life in prison for spying for Russia, and his brother to at least 12 years in prison. In what is considered one of the most serious cases in Swedish counterintelligence history, much of the trial took place behind closed doors in the name of national security.
According to the prosecution, it was Russian military intelligence, the GRU, who took advantage of the information provided by the two brothers between 2011 and their arrest at the end of 2021.
Peyman Kia, 42, has held many senior positions in the Swedish security apparatus, including the army and his country’s intelligence services (Säpo). His younger brother, Payam, 35, is accused of “participating in the planning” of the plot and of “managing contacts with Russia and the GRU, including passing on information and receiving financial rewards.”
Both men deny the charges, and their lawyers have demanded an acquittal on charges of “aggravated espionage,” according to the Swedish news agency TT.
The trial coincides with another case of alleged Russian espionage, with the arrest of the Russian-born couple in late November in a suburb of Stockholm by a police team arriving at dawn in a Blackhawk helicopter.
Research website Bellingcat identified them as Sergei Skvortsov and Elena Kulkova. The couple allegedly acted as sleeper agents for Moscow, having moved to Sweden in the late 1990s.
According to Swedish press reports, the couple ran companies specializing in the import and export of electronic components and industrial technology.
The man was again detained at the end of November for “illegal intelligence activities.” His partner, suspected of being an accomplice, has been released but remains under investigation.
According to Swedish authorities, the arrests are not related to the trial of the Kia brothers.
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Ukraine admitted that Russia may announce a general mobilization
“They can strengthen their positions. We understand that this can happen. At the same time, we do not rule out that they will announce a general mobilization,” Danilov said in an interview with the Ukrainska Pravda online publication.
Danilov believed that this mobilization would also be convened “to exterminate as many as possible” of Russian citizens, so that “they would no longer have any problems on their territory.”
In this sense, Danilov also reminded that Russia has not given up on securing control over Kyiv or the idea of the complete “destruction” of Ukraine. “We have to be ready for anything,” he said.
“I want everyone to understand that [os russos] they have not given up on the idea of destroying our nation. If they don’t have Kyiv in their hands, they won’t have anything in their hands, we must understand this,” continued Danilov, who also did not rule out that a new Russian offensive would come from “Belarus and other territories.” .
As such, Danilov praised the decision of many of its residents who chose to stay in the Ukrainian capital when the war broke out in order to defend the city.
“They expected that there would be panic, that people would run, that there would be nothing to protect Kyiv,” he added, referring to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine caused at least 6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 7.8 million refugees to European countries, which is why the UN classifies this migration crisis as the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945). gg.). ).
At the moment, 17.7 million Ukrainians are in need of humanitarian assistance, and 9.3 million are in need of food aid and housing.
The Russian invasion, justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security, was condemned by the international community at large, which responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing political and economic sanctions on Russia.
The UN has presented as confirmed 6,755 civilian deaths and 10,607 wounded since the beginning of the war, stressing that these figures are much lower than the real ones.
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