Argentina: An outbreak of trichinosis was controlled on a property in the Buenos Aires town of Colón

Published 2021년 9월 2일

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A pig farm in Argentina has been closed by the National Service of Agri-food Health and Quality (Senasa) due to a case of trichinosis, a disease that was also found in a person. Senasa veterinarian Carlos Sotera conducted the interdiction and sanitary procedures in accordance with regulations. Trichinosis is transmitted from animals to humans through undercooked pork or its processed products. Senasa is responsible for preventing and controlling zoonotic diseases in the province of Buenos Aires to ensure consumer health.
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Chivilcoy, (Buenos Aires) - Last August, in the Buenos Aires town of Colón, the National Service of Agri-food Health and Quality (Senasa), interdict a pig farm, for showing a positive result of trichinosis in one of its animals. With the confirmation of the positive result in a person and having carried out the epidemiological follow-up and the corresponding sanitary action protocol, Carlos Sotera, Senasa veterinarian in Rojas, jurisdiction of the Buenos Aires Norte Regional Center, went to the "origin establishment" from which the pig positive for trichinosis came from to carry out its interdiction and sanitary procedures according to the current sanitary regulations. Sotera explained that “we managed to detect the focus of trichinosis, when the positive of the disease was confirmed in a person, so we tracked the hatchery from which the parasitized meat came, to then carry out its interdiction, and identification of the animals living with it. positive pig. Once the caravanning ...

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