Agriculture Department extends animal health emergency for six months over bird flu

anyone Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Brazil has extended a nationwide state of animal health emergency for more than 180 days due to the detection of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus (HPAI) infection in wild birds. The extension includes the portal of the Official Journal of the Union (DOU) on the third day (7), which confirms advance information provided exclusively to Broadcast Agro by Carlos Goulart, Secretary of the Italian Ministry of Agriculture.

The current duration of the state of emergency is considered critical for the development of the disease in the country due to large numbers of birds returning from the northern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere, or increasing the likelihood of contamination of the country’s commercial populations as coastal birds are already infected and Concentrated on four migration routes.

Currently, Brazil is the only exporting country that has not registered production in commercial production.

The cases found here were found in wild animals, 2 of which were 134 (131 wild birds, 3 leões-marinhos), or in subsistence-producing birds and domestic birds, of which 3 cases, a total of 137 outbreaks have occurred in the country.

Brazil is the world’s largest pulp exporter and second largest pulp producer, with a processing volume of 14.524 billion tons in 2022.

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