The Center of Poultry Processing Companies (CEPA) reported Tuesday that bird flu has been eliminated in Argentina, 162 days after its first case and 50 days since it was last detected in commercial poultry.
Argentina’s National Service Center for Sanitation and Quality of Agro-Food (Senasa) is closed on Tuesday “The Last Case” A “corresponding report was sent to the World Organization for Animal Health (WHO), concluding that the country is again free of bird flu,” the organization’s president, Roberto Domenech, explained in a statement from CEPA.
“The good news is that in about 15 days, the entity that filed a complaint with OMSA when the first case occurred must inform the rest of the world that Argentina is once again a country free of poultry. Influenza”, the leader said in the text released Said.
However, Domenech added that Senasa and the private sector “They will continue to do all sanitation work This makes it possible to control the spread of the virus,” with private producers working to “deepen traceability and biosecurity on farms” to prevent possible outbreaks that would allow the virus to spread to the commercial sector.
On February 8, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a warning: Transmission of the disease in mammals in different parts of the world.
According to WHO, Bird flu mainly affects poultry and is considered highly deadly. Although it is an animal disease, it has the potential to spread to humans who come into contact with sick birds.
On February 28, Argentina confirmed first case Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5 Poultry from the southern province of Río Negro And to suspend the export of similar products to prevent the spread of the disease in the commercial field.
A month later, on April 1, overseas sales of chicken and eggs resumed.
Recently, following an outbreak of avian influenza in cats in Poland, the World Health Organization proposed the development of an experimental vaccine to prevent possible cases of human-to-human transmission.