Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many birds died as a result of avian flu in each of the last five years.
The Animal and Plant Health Agency holds the following records on the birds that have died as a result of avian influenza or were culled as part of disease control operations, or for wild birds from the Agency’s surveillance of wild bird reserves
Year | Number of kept bird deaths (primarily commercial) as a result of avian influenza |
2014 | 15,982 |
2015 | 155,781 |
2016 | 42,228 |
2017 | 177,279 |
2018 | N/A |
Year | Number of wild bird deaths as a result of highly pathogenic avian influenza |
2014 | 0 |
2015 | 0 |
2016 | 7 |
2017 | 45 |
2018 | 101 |