Mexico has already slaughtered 5.5 million birds, mainly laying hens, infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza AH5NI.
The National Service for Health, Safety and Food Quality (Senasica) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader) have confirmed the presence of avian influenza of this variant also in Mexico City farms.
The news began to circulate in the last hours of yesterday and was confirmed this Thursday when it was specified that the virus is present in water bodies and farms in various entities of the country, including the capital.
According to the report, the virus of Asian origin has already been detected in wild birds in Tláhuac and Xochimilco, Mexico City, as well as in water bodies and wetlands in Aguascalientes, Baja California, Michoacán, Puebla and Texcoco in the state. from Mexico.
For its part, Senasica announced that so far 99,648 birds have been sampled in poultry production units, backyard farms and wetlands to detect the infection.
It should be noted that 900 thousand mother hens, more than 13.6 million breeders and more than 69.6 million commercial places have been immunized in Jalisco, Yucatán, Sonora, Campeche, Chiapas, Coahuila, Colima, Durango, Hidalgo, Michoacán, Nayarit , Nuevo Leon, Veracruz and Zacatecas.
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Source: Latin Press