Bird flu has been detected in an ewe in northern England, the first known case of its kind in the world, Britain’s government said.
Many different mammals have died of the H5N1 bird flu virus across the globe including bears, cats, dairy cows, dogs, dolphins, seals, tigers and million of chickens and turkeys have been slaughtered to prevent the disease from spreading to other commercial flocks.
The case was identified following routine surveillance of farmed livestock on a premises in Yorkshire where highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) had been confirmed in birds, the government said.
Although there have been a few human infections, most of them mild, there has been no spread from a human to another human.
The sheep that tested positive was a ewe with signs of mastitis and no other clinical signs, the government said.
