PMV 1 update: 22 December 2011 Time: 12:00 hrs. Issued by the Victorian Department of Primary Industries for the pigeon and related industries.

Situation Analysis

• There are 55 properties in Victoria where the virus has been confirmed in pigeons that are sick or have died, located around Shepparton and Melbourne suburbs. Of those, 38 have now been resolved.

• There have been three more confirmed case of Paramyxovirus 1 (PMV1) in feral pigeons. There has also been three more suspect cases of PMV1 in feral pigeons across Melbourne. All of these suspect cases were within 5 kilometres of a previously confirmed positive PMV1 case in the feral pigeon population. To date, feral pigeons in fifteen locations in Melbourne have tested positive to PMV1.

• The last confirmed case of PMV1 occurred on 21 December 2011.

• New reports of sickness and death in pigeons continue to be investigated by DPI.

However, most activities are now associated with releasing infected properties from quarantine.