Mexico reports highly pathogenic outbreak of avian influenza to WHOA

The United Nations agency for international actions on animal health reported this Thursday, November 2, that the Mexican authorities detected the outbreak of avian influenza, a highly dangerous disease for the populations of chickens and other birds. The WHO report - which is based in Paris - cited the Government of Mexico, which mentioned that the outbreak was detected in Sonora, killing about 15 thousand laying hens in a pen that had a total of 90 thousand, so the rest were sacrificed. Continued WHOSA : "as a result of the passive epidemiological surveillance carried out by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the first outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5 of this season was reported in a poultry production unit in the municipality of Cajeme, Sonora." On October 4, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader) of Mexico declared that the entire country was a “zone free of avian influenza type A, subtype H5N1” after the outbreak that ...