Brazil: Pará strengthens surveillance plan to prevent avian influenza

Published 2022년 12월 14일

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The Agricultural Defense Agency of Pará, Brazil, is implementing an Epidemiological Surveillance Plan to monitor Avian Influenza and Newcastle Disease in poultry, in response to the world's largest epidemic of the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus. This outbreak, affecting countries like Colombia, Ecuador, and Chile, poses a risk to Brazil, the world's third-largest poultry farmer and largest chicken meat exporter. The plan involves collecting samples from 1,122 birds and 16,930 biological samples from 98 farms across 21 municipalities, using a team of 22 professionals. The goal is to demonstrate the absence of these diseases in industrial poultry, supporting Brazil's status as a country free from Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. This preventive measure is crucial for avoiding commercial restrictions that could negatively impact the production chain.

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The Agricultural Defense Agency of the State of Pará (Adepará) continues with the actions of the Epidemiological Surveillance Plan for Avian Influenza and Newcastle Disease in Pará. Since the beginning of the month, a team made up of 22 professionals, including State Agricultural Inspectors (FEAs) and Agricultural Inspection Agents (AFAs), has been in the field collecting biological material from the birds for study. The plan intends to demonstrate the absence of diseases in industrial poultry, due to the increase in cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (IAAP H5N1 virus) in South America. So far, outbreaks of the disease have been reported in neighboring countries such as Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru and Chile. In some limited to wild birds and others reaching subsistence or production birds. According to MAPA, this is the largest HPAI epidemic in the world and most cases are related to the contact of migratory wild birds with subsistence, production or local wild ...

Source: Avistie