Global: Avian influenza spreads across South America and leaves Brazilian poultry on high alert

Published 2023년 2월 17일

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Since 2021, the world has been grappling with outbreaks of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), with the US experiencing its worst outbreak, leading to the loss of 58 million birds. In 2022, the virus spread to Central and South American countries like Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela, with Chile also reporting new cases. Affected countries have been implementing various strategies to contain the outbreaks. Brazil, a major chicken meat exporter, is taking preventive measures to avoid similar outbreaks, given the potential economic and social impact. The World Organization for Animal Health recommends culling all birds on affected and at-risk farms to control the disease, understanding the economic losses this causes for producers.

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Since 2021 outbreaks of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza have been worrying the world poultry industry. The US is experiencing its worst outbreak in history accounting for the loss of 58 million birds. At the end of 2022 the virus began to spread to countries in Central and South America. Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Panama, Peru and Venezuela detected the presence of HPAI for the first time. Chile, which has been free of the disease since 2002, has also registered new cases. The speed with which the virus spread across the region is frightening, in just four months reaching all these countries. The affected countries have been trying different strategies to contain the outbreaks, according to their socioeconomic reality, ranging from eradicating the outbreak through sanitary slaughter to vaccine programs. Brazil is the largest exporter of chicken meat in the world and has never registered a case of HPAI being considered free of the disease, but the spread of ...

Source: Avicultura Industrial