About 300 sea lions were buried, but not all were infected with bird flu

State Aquatic Resources Director Jaime Coronel reports that work is progressing on the burial of the lions and lions. sea ​​lion by Avian Influenzabut there are still about 120 specimens stranded on the coast of Rocha.

About 300 people have been buried. There are 14 to 15,000 sea lions in Uruguay, of which 250,000 are sea lions.

He insisted that this is not considered a pandemic because “according to the data we sampled, 100% of the people will not die from the disease nor have any signs of the disease. Our positivity rate is 47.22%.”

Authorities are taking blood samples from the animals to determine whether antigens for the disease are present.

“Currently we are working on an emergency transfer of animals. We have been conducting evaluations with CECOED, but at the moment we cannot say what will happen in two months. We have been evaluating the situation with this disease on a daily basis,” Coronel added road.

Their work has resulted in Rocha having clean beaches and being able to host tourism.

Carmen Leizagoyen, responsible for fauna Ministry of EnvironmentThe situation in Uruguay is considered different from that of Chile and Peru.

“We found pregnant females and it’s close to the breeding season. We have breeding colonies. So the closest is Argentina, but it’s also giving birth,” he noted.

He said there had been no reported cases of infection in whales, but there were cases of infection in dolphins in Chile. Regarding Uruguay, he said: “Some of the stranded animals have been swabbed and the results came back negative.”