Avian flu, which is hitting egg production in the US, lands in Spain

This Friday, Spanish health and animal production authorities have confirmed an outbreak at a turkey farm in Ahillones (Badajoz) Spanish poultry farms have managed to maintain their status for two and a half years, free of avian influenza, something to be valued in a global context marked by the circulation of the virus in different serotypes and which has strongly impacted productions such as egg production in the United States. This Friday, Spanish health and animal production authorities have confirmed an outbreak at a turkey farm in Ahillones (Badajoz), thus breaking the streak that the Spanish poultry sector had been recording since February 2023, when the last outbreak was declared in another turkey farm in the province of Lleida. It has been more than 24 months in which national poultry production has been safe despite the virus circulating in the country, as demonstrated by the outbreaks periodically detected in wildlife: the last two this very week in areas of ...