Brazil, the world’s largest chicken exporter, has extended its state of animal health emergency for 180 days over bird flu, official sources reported on Tuesday.
Based on the detection of cases of “wild birds” infected with the H5N1 avian influenza virus disclosed in the government gazette, the government decided to extend the measures implemented on May 22.
According to the latest data from the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, the first case of avian influenza was detected in the country on May 15. So far, 136 “wild animal” outbreaks and 3 outbreaks of household edible birds have been detected.
About 550 sea lions also died last month from suspected bird flu in different parts of the Rio Grande do Sul state’s coast, which borders Argentina and Uruguay and where outbreaks of the virus have also been recorded.
Health authorities confirmed three of them died from the disease.
The remaining cases were not analyzed because, under government guidance, it was not necessary to examine animals of the same species where the presence of the pathogen had been confirmed.
The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA) yesterday awarded Uruguayan artisanal fisherman Andrea Ballestero the title of “Rural Leader” of the Americas in recognition of her contribution to food security and sustainable development.
IICA stressed that the honor awarded to the 31-year-old Ballestero “is recognition of those who fulfill a double irreplaceable role: both as guarantors of food and nutritional security and at the same time as stewards of the planet through production in all circumstances Biodiverse People”.
“This recognition also serves to highlight the ability to promote positive role models for rural areas in the region,” IICA noted.
Ballestero was born, raised and lives in a family of just 22 families in Uruguay’s Rocha province, on the shores of the eponymous lagoon, which is periodically connected to the Atlantic Ocean through a natural system of locks and dams. , the organism is described in detail.
The Uruguayan native learned to sail and fish by watching her family and now has her own boat, on which she goes fishing every morning and is involved in all stages of production, as she also works in processing.