The State Service of Ukraine on Food Safety and Consumer Protection has not recorded a single outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Ukraine since the beginning of 2022.
As reported on its website on Thursday, the service examined the presence of influenza pathogens in the poultry population of 487 poultry farms of various forms of ownership in 4,680 settlements.
In total, in the first half of the year, the State Food Service examined 56,700 samples of biomaterials from birds, including 21,300 birds in industrial farms and 34,400 birds in private peasant farms. In addition, 304 birds of 11 synanthropic (living close to humans) species, 668 wild migratory birds of 31 species, and 50 birds of 22 species living in zoos were examined.
It is clarified that the statistics include data from Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv and Kherson regions only for January-February 2022, since its further collection is impossible due to the full-scale war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine.
