Archive: May 2025

The faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Utrecht University regularly compiles dossiers on a variety of topics. Their latest dossier focuses on zoonoses, diseases transmissible from animals to humans, which is a key aspect of the work of the DWHC.

Between mid-April and early May, there was an increase in reports of sick and dead Barnacle Geese as a result of infection with the avian influenza virus (bird flu virus). This mainly concerned birds that stayed behind at gathering sites in the eastern Wadden Sea area while their conspecifics continued their