Tag: Avian flu

• Wednesday, May 3rd 2023 - 10:30 UTC

  Uruguay starts vaccinating poultry against avian flu

  

  Uruguayan authorities began vaccinating poultry against avian flu with immunizers from the United States, it was reported Tuesday in Montevideo. An additional batch of chemicals is due from Mexico shortly.

• Wednesday, March 1st 2023 - 10:25 UTC

  Argentina halts poultry exports after case of avian flu confirmed

  

  Argentine authorities Tuesday suspended poultry exports after the first case of avian flu was confirmed in the province of Río Negro. The South American country's poultry exports last year amounted to US$ 383 million, with China buying 75% of them. With 2.5 million tons of poultry meat produced annually, 10% are sold abroad.

• Saturday, February 18th 2023 - 10:24 UTC

  Uruguayan ministers tackle avian flu

  

  Uruguay's Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries (MGAP) sought technical advice from Chile to handle the current bird flu crisis, it was reported Friday in Montevideo.

• Saturday, February 11th 2023 - 15:48 UTC

  Brazil, free of avian flu, so far, exported a record 421.000 tons of poultry meat in January

  

  With poultry prices soaring (a dozen of eggs in California reached eight dollars, yes eight dollars and climbing) because of the intense culling of millions of chickens caused by the avian flu, no wonder then than poultry meat exports from Brazil during January reached 420.900 tons, up 20.6% compared to the same period of the previous year and a record for the month, claimed the ABPA (Brazilian Association of Animal Protein) this week.

• Tuesday, February 7th 2023 - 10:22 UTC

  Emergency in Brazil as avian flu outbreak reported in neighboring Bolivia; poultry exports total US$ 9,7billion

  

  After two decades, the highly pathogenic (when almost all infected animals show symptoms of the disease) avian flu has become a real threat to Brazilian flocks and production. Nine countries in Central and South America have confirmed 75 outbreaks of the disease in recent months and have already had to sacrifice 1.2 million birds.

• Monday, January 16th 2023 - 10:16 UTC

  Avian flu emergency decreed in Honduras

  

  Honduran authorities have declared a 90-day nationwide health alert following an outbreak of avian influenza among pelicans, it was announced in Tegucigalpa. About 40,000 poultry were also evaluated and no signs of the malady were detected, it was also reported.

• Thursday, January 12th 2023 - 11:20 UTC

  First human patient with avian flu reported in Ecuador

  

  Ecuadorian health authorities have confirmed the first case of avian influenza in a human patient. The Ministry of Public Health (MSP) announced it was a 9-year-old girl who had been in contact with infected birds in the province of Bolivar.

• Monday, December 12th 2022 - 12:03 UTC

  Avian flu confirmed among dead pelicans in the north of Chile

  

  Following the confirmation of reported cases of avian flu in the north of Chile, Public Health ministry officials visited the area over the weekend where hundreds of dead pelicans have been found, pointing out that “so far there is no evidence of the bird flu contagion of humans” and calling on people to avoid contact with dead or sick birds.

• Tuesday, November 29th 2022 - 10:50 UTC

  Ecuadorian poultry farm detected to have cases of bird flu

  

  Ecuadorian authorities have activated an epidemiological encirclement following a surge in cases of avian influenza. The first confirmation stemmed from a poultry production farm in the Andean province of Cotopaxi thanks to controls by the Agency for Regulation and Phytosanitary and Zoosanitary Control (Agrocalidad), the Agriculture and Livestock Ministry said.

• Tuesday, November 29th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  US poultry farms forced to eliminate 50,5 million chickens because of avian flu

  

  More than 50,5 million birds in US poultry farms have been slaughtered because of outbreaks of avian flu among flocks in over forty states, according to the Department of Agriculture.