Whereas the World Organisation for Animal Well being (WOAH) does not take into account the extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) state of affairs in Mexican poultry to be resolved, a Might 10 report did reveal it was resolved within the nation’s birds not categorised as poultry.
The primary case of HPAI in a wild fowl in Mexico was confirmed on October 11, by which a wild widespread teal that confirmed no scientific indicators was subjected to a routine sampling for HPAI, and that check proved constructive.
Since that point, 255 instances of HPAI have been confirmed, together with 242 deaths. Essentially the most important of these instances reported concerned a 40-hectare premises which was the location of the breeding of songbirds and decorative birds.
In its newest report, WOAH said: “The final outbreak of HPAI of subtype H5N1 was on January 3, 2024. Due to this fact, it has been greater than 28 days because the final detection of outbreaks in wildlife, and this animal well being occasion is taken into account resolved (Article 10.4.6 of the Terrestrial Animal Well being Code). Native poultry farmers have been urged to strengthen the biosecurity measures on their farms and backyards and to instantly notify the well being authority of any anomaly noticed of their animals. The lively epidemiological surveillance program is being maintained in technified manufacturing items, backyards, federally inspected slaughterhouses and municipal slaughterhouses in addition to the monitoring of untamed birds at nationwide stage.”
A separate WOAH report associated to HPAI in poultry said that the final case was confirmed on February 2 in a yard flock in Juanacatlán. The final confirmed occasion of HPAI in a business poultry operation was a flock of 54,000 laying hens in Cajame. In that case, confirmed on October 28, 2023, 33 birds died, whereas the remaining 53,967 chickens have been depopulated.
Throughout the 2022-24 HPAI outbreak, the presence of HPAI has been confirmed in 38 business poultry operations in Mexico, affecting 6,927,629 birds.
To study extra about HPAI instances in business poultry flocks in the US, Mexico and Canada, see an interactive map on WATTPoultry.com.
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