Archive: June 2025

To the relief of many, reports of bird flu among wild birds in the Netherlands remained relatively low this past spring. Although the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus had not completely disappeared, increased mortality from this virus did not occur among the colony-breeding gulls and terns that had been severely

On June 14th, the German authorities confirmed an African swine fever infection. African swine fever (ASF) is a notifiable disease caused by the ASF virus, which can cause serious illness in pigs. Last weekend, an ASF-infected dead wild boar was found approximately 150 km from the Dutch border, close to the

Since August last year, the number of reports of sick hares with swollen eyes that often appeared blind and collapsed has increased (see https://dwhc.nl/en/2024/11/current-situation-of-the-research-on-hares/). After post-mortem

In the province North Brabant, an old female badger (Meles meles) was found dead in March 2025, in a garden close to a badger sett (an underground tunnel system where badgers live). The badger was thin and dehydrated. The animal was sent in and examined by the DWHC.