Quarantined farms and Acatic Tepatitlán
June 28, 2012
Guadalajara • The National Health Service, Food Safety and Food Quality (SENASICA), while determining a quarantine isolation to about 150 farms and Acatic Tepatitlán reported that imported from Thailand or Vietnam, the first vaccines to counter Avian Influenza Type A H7N3.
The head of that agency, Enrique Sánchez Cruz, after making a tour of the affected area, said that in the absence Mexico with the vaccine has been necessary to investigate which country she has to make it reach farmers and prevent the virus expand. At the same time is a technical group composed of senior scientist who is working on developing such a vaccine.
"The first portion is on the way, we hope that this week we have it available to identify where would be the containment barrier."
Will be about a million vaccines which require, it is noteworthy that producers must pay for them. The official also added that we now know "what the enemy" and how to combat: "Is the quarantine, vaccination and the future elimination."
Regarding the origin of the virus might have been mentioned by ducks or geese that migrated from the U.S. or Canada: "Many of them reach the water area of Mexico as Chapala, are left to live and coexist with wild birds bring the virus but are asymptomatic. "
Yesterday, the official met with both national and local poultry farmers to inform them how to act once the vaccine has arrived. "The vaccine purchases and distribution will be through the National Union of Poultry Farmers and of course the state, primarily because it is an exotic virus and should be careful in who receives it and how birds use".
He said it is essential that poultry and poultry products do not mobilize that area, as you run the risk of further spread. "They are in a quarantine process where they can not move animals or products outside the area but is an official authorization of the Government of the Republic." Adding the number of animals that have died from the effects of the disease and killed, the number is important: "between the original report that we saw to give the certainty of the presence of this virus, had reported about 200 000 animals had died, others killed. "
For now it is unknown what the cost of imported vaccines as well as that developed in Mexico. Finally Cruz Sanchez said that the consumption of egg and chicken meat poses no danger to humans, according to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).Estimate impact of contagion is only 6% of total poultry farms operating in the producing area of Los Altos de Jalisco.
Risk
Staff Writer
U.S. researchers have linked a second strain of cholera to the
epidemic that decimated the Haitian population in 2010-11. Previous studies have
suggested that the epidemic was caused by bacteria inadvertently introduced by
Nepalese soldiers who came to assist in recovery from a massive earthquake.
The new strain appears to be local in origin, but its role in the epidemic is
not clear because this strain does not normally produce epidemics.
Haiti suffered a
devastating magnitude 7 earthquake on Jan. 12, 2010, followed by about 52
aftershocks with a magnitude of 4.5 or higher. Estimates indicate that more than
250,000 died immediately, about 300,000 were injured and 1 million were rendered
homeless. Cholera cases began to appear in October and the spread of the disease
was exacerbated by Hurricane Tomas, which skirted the island on Nov. 5 but
produced torrential rains and severe flooding. To date, cholera has killed an
estimated 7,500 Haitians and sickened half a million.
Early studies by.. http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-haiti-cholera-20120618,0,3371170.story