The National Service for Agri-Food Health and Quality (Senasa) of Argentina has declared the end of the highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak recorded in August in Los Toldos, in the province of Buenos Aires. With the conclusion of the actions of culling, burial, cleaning, and disinfection, and after 28 days without new cases, the agency sent to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) the self-declaration report of the country free of the disease, re-establishing the conditions for international trade of poultry products, Senasa reported in a statement.
According to the document sent to the OIE, all measures adopted followed international sanitary protocols for the containment and eradication of the virus. The disclosure of the data, Senasa states, "reinforces the transparency of the procedures and the confidence of importing markets in the Argentine surveillance system".
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