H5N1 Wild Bird Confirmations in Nuremberg Germany Increase
Recombinomics Commentary
July 10, 2007
Again two cases proven by bird flu in Nuernberg The number of the water birds in the Nuernberger city, ended at bird flu, rose to 13. On Tuesday Friedrich Loeffler Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut confirmed the highly sticking on variant of the H5N1-Virus with two swans, how the city administration communicated. The two peak swans had been found on Tuesday and Thursday past week dead at the Woehrder lake.
The above translation indicates new infections are still ongoing in Germany. There have been 10 confirmed cases on Woehrder Lake in Nuremberg. As seen in the satellite photo, the lake is in the heart of Nuremberg and easily monitored because of the surrounding population, and the small size of the lake. It is likely that the latest confirmed cases are from a reservoir of H5N1 near Nuremberg that continues to cause new fatalities. As seen in the satellite photo of Silver Lake, the site of the other confirmed case in Nuremberg, these cases are readily detected.
The continued detection of these cases adds further support for an H5N1 endemic population in Germany.
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