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Egypt - 7,000 chickens culled due to bird flu - strain not mentioned - Fayoum governorate - March 24, 2016

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  • Egypt - 7,000 chickens culled due to bird flu - strain not mentioned - Fayoum governorate - March 24, 2016

    Execution of thousands of chickens infected with bird flu in Fayoum

    March 24, 2016 Executed veterinary services in the province of Fayoum 0.7 thousand chickens at a poultry farm in the village of compromise Senoras Center, having proven the results of analyzes of the sample taken from the dead poultry farm infected with bird flu virus.
    Dr. Makhlouf Ali, Acting Undersecretary of the Ministry of Veterinary Medicine in Fayoum, said that the fact the virus Directorate teams, carried out acts of investigation at the beginning of February and March Monthly, in which the virus appears, by showing the presence of dead chickens at a farm in the village of compromise Senoras Center, samples were taken of them, and send them Central to the analysis of the plants, where were the result of a positive sample.
    He added: "I paid teams of the Directorate and headed to the place of the farm, where they were executed seven thousand chickens show symptoms, the farm and in the vicinity of one square kilometer, surrounding the area, as a preventive measure, to prevent transmission of the virus to these areas," pointing out that vaccination of poultry at the epicenter of 10 kilometers radius from the outside to the inside, as a precautionary measure.
    He explained that the Fayoum appeared in four positive foci of HIV infection from the beginning of the year until this month, 0.3 of them domestic and the fourth farms.



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