Mexico: Senasica removes internal quarantine imposed on poultry farms
In a statement, the General Directorate of Animal Health of the agency of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development ordered the lifting of the quarantine on March 2, after verifying that there is no presence of the HPAI virus in three chicken farms in grows in Aguascalientes, with a population of 826 800 birds.
He stressed that in order to verify the absence of the virus, the official veterinarians of the United States-Mexico Commission for the Prevention of Foot-and-Mouth Disease and other Exotic Animal Diseases of Senasica carried out weekly sampling for three weeks in the commercial farms of the entity, which gave negative results to HPAI. Thus, they indicated that, after 28 days without cases, the state quarantine was lifted.
However, he added that the epidemiological investigation clearly demonstrated the interaction between domestic and wild birds that are connected through bridge species such as grackles, among which the circulation of the avian influenza virus has been identified.
The authorities urged poultry producers not to lower their guard and strengthen biosecurity measures in their poultry production units, both family and commercial.
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