Expert warns avian flu to reach Sea of Galilee, posing danger to humans

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But Health Ministry says tests have so far not found water to be polluted after flowing from Hula Lake Reserve, where 5,000 cranes have died

By TOI STAFF31 December 2021, 7:15 pm

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People visit a promenade in the city of Tiberias, next to the Sea of Galilee on January 30, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

An expert warned Thursday that the avian flu outbreak that has killed vast numbers of domestic and wildfowl in recent weeks in northern Israel will spread to the Sea of Galilee.

Professor Moshe Gofen, former head of the Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, said the flow of water from the Hula Lake Reserve — where some 5,000 cranes died of the disease — to the Sea of ​​Galilee poses a danger to humans, according to the Kan public broadcaster.

Gofen claimed there was no way of stopping the lake’s waters from becoming polluted and called to warn…

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