Colombia confirms new outbreak of avian influenza

Published Nov 8, 2022

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The Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA) has confirmed an outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza at a farm in the El Tamarindo Natural Reserve, Bolívar, with 23 birds dying and the remaining 49 being slaughtered. The source of the outbreak is believed to be close contact with wild birds, as the area is on the American migratory route. The ICA has initiated epidemiological surveillance, cleaning, and disinfection, and is working with local health authorities to prevent the disease from spreading. The outbreak does not pose a threat to the national production or consumption of eggs and chicken meat.

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The Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA) confirmed, as a result of epidemiological surveillance actions carried out throughout the national territory, the presence of a new outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza on a property in the El Tamarindo Natural Reserve, specifically in the village of Las Canoas , rural area of the municipality of Cartagena, Bolívar. The positive result was confirmed by the ICA's National Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, after the region's technical team treated a suspected disease compatible with Avian Influenza reported by the farm's owner on November 1st. The total population of the farm was 72 birds (including chickens, ducks and turkeys), of which 23 died and the remaining 49, as a sanitary measure to control and eradicate the disease and in accordance with established technical procedures, were slaughtered by the technical team. of the ICA, which also initiated epidemiological surveillance actions, cleaning and disinfection of the area, to ...

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