A 870 000 and 1.7 million dead birds affected by avian flu in Mexico
Bird flu has killed about 870,000 birds, sick or killed, a dozen farms in Jalisco (western Mexico), Mexican authorities confirmed Friday that found that there are 1.7 million birds affected.
"The number of birds that have died from disease or depopulated as a control and eradication are 870,000, until today," he said in a statement the National Health Service, Food Safety and Food Quality (SENASICA), which did not specify the number of animals slaughtered.
The body under the Ministry of Agriculture reported that 1.7 million have been detected in birds affected, about 6,120,500 were reviewed in the medical device implemented in recent days in the Los Altos de Jalisco.
Last Thursday, the agency announced the presence of the H7N3 strain of avian influenza viruses in animals from three farms in the municipalities of Tepatitlán and Acatic that were quarantined as a control measure.
The SENASICA stated that launched the National Emergency Animal Health, which have reviewed 111 large poultry farms, of which 10 were with the virus, 7 more than in the first review.
He confirmed that next week could get the vaccine to Mexico will be imported from Asia to "protect the birds from the disease and prevent mortality."
He said the H7N3 avian influenza virus poses no risk to the consumption of poultry products and that the control and eradication measures implemented are intended to protect the production of that area.
The Organization of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) had already reported Friday that about 200,000 birds have died directly in Mexico by the disease while another 600,000 have had to be culled to control the outbreak.
The agency called on the authorities in Mexico to act to prevent the spread of the disease, considered "highly pathogenic".
According to FAO, in Mexico there had been so far the presence of the H7N3 subtype.
The last outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza occurred in 1994, affected 11 states and was the subtype H5N2. Since then the disease remains controlled, said the international organization. http://www.unionradio.net/ActualidadUR/nota/visornota.aspx?id=114808&tpCont=1&idSec=2
