Concern for Avian Influenza in Argentina: If we start killing chickens as happens in some places, the egg will have to be

Yesterday the main portals reported hard news: 40,000 poultry had to be slaughtered in Chile due to the detection of the first case of Avian Influenza in an industrial environment. Although the government of that country insisted that it was a "limited" event, the numbers are shocking and generate fear for the possibility of outbreaks of this magnitude occurring in the country. Although the core poultry zone of Argentina still remains unscathed, here there have already been cases in peripheral commercial farms and the numbers of slaughtered birds were also impressive. Bichos de Campo spoke with Javier Prida, president of the Argentine Chamber of Poultry Producers (CAPIA), to talk about the egg producing sector that is sustained by no less than 51.5 million laying hens, distributed in 1,000 establishments throughout the country . “There are areas more complicated than others. Everything related to backyard birds in Córdoba is complicated because cases continue to appear ...