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SUSPICIOUS CASE OF BIRD FLU IN PARAKOU
AGRICULTURE Admin January 22, 2024
Concern in the ranks of northern breeders
For several days, it has been circulating on the networks that avian flu has appeared on farms in northern Benin. Constituting a great concern for breeders in this region, the Head of the regulation and control division of products of animal origin at DDAEP Borgou is clarifying the situation.
Manifestation of avian flu in poultry
Jean-Baptiste HONTONNOU
“There is only one farm where we suspected the disease,” said division head François Dadidje speaking to a colleague from Bip Radio. Chickens, ducks and guinea fowl, these are the poultry slaughtered on a traditional farm in Parakou after this avian flu alert. Contacted by Bip Radio, the division head confirms that this still remains a suspicion and we will have to move on to the verification stage through accredited laboratories. “For the moment, we are only in a case of suspicion and this, in a single breeding in Parakou”.
Speaking about the arrangements that have already been made, the division head said that the technical management team went to the site and after investigation, "the immediate measure was to eliminate all the poultry on site because we could not cannot wait for confirmation from the laboratory to have to run after the evil. Other technical measures were applied to breeding in collaboration with the breeder. Subsequently, the team continued its investigation in the surrounding farms to see if other breeders experienced the same mortality rates and "the state of vigilance is maintained until today while waiting for us to have the official confirmation.
Thus, in the hope that the laboratory results will be available and that the competent authorities will communicate around them, the division head has provided some advice to breeders. This concerns much more preventive measures which consist of limiting foreign visits to farms as much as possible and avoiding the introduction of a foreign subject into farms.
SUSPICIOUS CASE OF BIRD FLU IN PARAKOU
AGRICULTURE Admin January 22, 2024
Concern in the ranks of northern breeders
For several days, it has been circulating on the networks that avian flu has appeared on farms in northern Benin. Constituting a great concern for breeders in this region, the Head of the regulation and control division of products of animal origin at DDAEP Borgou is clarifying the situation.
Manifestation of avian flu in poultry
Jean-Baptiste HONTONNOU
“There is only one farm where we suspected the disease,” said division head François Dadidje speaking to a colleague from Bip Radio. Chickens, ducks and guinea fowl, these are the poultry slaughtered on a traditional farm in Parakou after this avian flu alert. Contacted by Bip Radio, the division head confirms that this still remains a suspicion and we will have to move on to the verification stage through accredited laboratories. “For the moment, we are only in a case of suspicion and this, in a single breeding in Parakou”.
Speaking about the arrangements that have already been made, the division head said that the technical management team went to the site and after investigation, "the immediate measure was to eliminate all the poultry on site because we could not cannot wait for confirmation from the laboratory to have to run after the evil. Other technical measures were applied to breeding in collaboration with the breeder. Subsequently, the team continued its investigation in the surrounding farms to see if other breeders experienced the same mortality rates and "the state of vigilance is maintained until today while waiting for us to have the official confirmation.
Thus, in the hope that the laboratory results will be available and that the competent authorities will communicate around them, the division head has provided some advice to breeders. This concerns much more preventive measures which consist of limiting foreign visits to farms as much as possible and avoiding the introduction of a foreign subject into farms.
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