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Argentina expands its disease-free zone for salmonids in Río Negro and Neuquén

Salmon
Seafood
Argentina
Published Mar 14, 2023

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Buenos Aires - The World Organization for Animal Health (OMSA) published on its official website the technical document presented by the National Agrifood Health and Quality Service (Senasa), which provides evidence of compliance with the requirements and procedures established the international organization to self-declare the Piedra del Águila reservoir as a zone free of notifiable diseases that affect salmonids. In this way, Argentina expands the free zone, which already included the upper basin of the Limay River and the Alicurá reservoir, in the provinces of Neuquén and Río Negro. The documentation presented by Senasa refers to the tasks carried out to demonstrate the absence and maintain the health status, in relation to the following diseases that affect salmonids: Epizootic hematopoietic necrosis virus (EHNV) infection; Gyrodactylus salaris infection; infection with infectious salmon anemia virus (by HPR-deleted variants and HPR0); infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus ...
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