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Thursday, June 28, 2012

200 000 birds die from influenza in MEXICO #BIRDFLU #H7N3

June 2012 12:00

200 000 birds die from influenza




* Inspect farms to establish the damage caused by the disease

More than 200 000 birds in Texas have died from avian influenza AH7N3, reported the National Health Service, Food Safety and Food Quality (SENASICA).

SENASICA representatives established a perimeter quarantine aviaries 110 centers, where carrying a 80 percent advance of the inspection.
According to the SENASICA only 4 poultry farms have confirmed the presence of the AH7N3 virus, however, on a tour in Tepatitlan, producers warned an involvement in 30 of the 48 farms established in the township.
Jalisco is estimated that there are more than 80 million birds, and in the towns of Ajijic and Tepatitlán calculate a universe of 12 million poultry.
Enrique Sánchez Cruz, chief of the agency, said that the results of the farms that have been inspected will be available towards the following weekend.
Due to the nature of the virus, all birds carry the AH7N3 must be killed because there is no treatment to reverse this avian disease.
0Risk discarded Jalisco Health Secretariat health risks dismissed human cases of avian influenza in Tepatitlán and Acatic.