The results of passive epidemiological surveillance by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development showed that a poultry farm in Cayemé City, Sonora State reported the first case of H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza this season. Wow..
The report states that the subtype of the virus is H5N1.
The country’s animal safety officials confirmed the first cases of H5N1 avian influenza in wild birds early last month, after announcing hours earlier that the country’s poultry farms had been cleared of the virus.
The Department of Agriculture reported on Wednesday afternoon that the spread of H5N1 avian influenza has been detected at a second commercial farm in this part of the country’s north, three kilometers from the first farm where the virus was confirmed and home to approximately 90,000 birds.” amount reduced”.
After receiving the notification from the manufacturer, “the technical staff of the DGSA United States-Mexico Committee for the Prevention of Foot and Mouth Disease and Other Exotic Animal Diseases (CPA) have begun to take corresponding epidemic prevention measures,” he explained.
The local Directorate General of Animal Health (DGSA) declared a quarantine and began extermination, cleaning and disinfection work at the site, which houses 54,000 birds that are at the end of their production cycle.
Just in early October, Mexican authorities declared the country free of the H5N1 avian influenza virus, nearly a year after launching a bird vaccination campaign in high-risk areas to prevent its spread.
In October 2022, the Department of Agriculture (Sader) reported that the virus was detected in a commercial farm with 60,000 birds in Nuevo Leon state.
At the time, Mexico reported that it would maintain epidemiological surveillance, prevention, diagnosis, traceability and controls on the movement, transport, marketing and import of poultry, its products and by-products.
Worry
Governments and the poultry industry are concerned about the spread of the highly contagious virus, which has ravaged poultry farms around the world in recent years, disrupting supplies, driving up food prices and posing a risk of human-to-human transmission.
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), commonly known as bird flu, has killed flocks of poultry in the United States and Europe since last year.
In South America, Brazil enacted a 180-day animal health emergency in May after detecting several cases, and Ecuador confirmed the presence of the virus in some birds in the Galapagos Islands in September.