Source: https://www.diariodehuelva.es/2022/0...-aviar-huelva/
2 feverro, 2022
The H5N1 avian flu virus appears in Huelva: 41,000 chickens are sacrificed in Villarrasa
The Consejería de Agricultura, Ganadería, Pesca y Desarrollo Sostenible has today declared an outbreak of avian influenza in a broiler farm located in the municipality of Villarrasa , in the province of Huelva, after confirming the Central Veterinary Laboratory of Algete on the detection of the virus of High Pathogenic Avian Influenza (IAAP) in this farm.
By the Veterinary Authorities of Andalucía, the municipality of Andalucía had been included in the special surveillance zone for avian influenza , an area in which, due to the epidemiological situation of the disease in Europe, additional measures were taken to prevent possible buds of the disease in domestic birds.
It is about an exploitation of broilers , distributed in two ships, with a census of 41,000 pollos of six weeks of age .
The suspicion of the illness was derived from the detection of an abnormal increase in mortality in one of the two ships and that began on the 28th of January . The samples taken by the professionals of the Veterinary Services were sent to the Central Veterinary Laboratory of Algete, as the National Aviation Influenza Reference Laboratory in Spain, which has confirmed that it is a strain of HPAI subtype H5N1 . Throughout this process, the Council has been in permanent communication with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
While the possible origin of the focus remains under the study, wild birds are considered to be the most probable source...
2 feverro, 2022
The H5N1 avian flu virus appears in Huelva: 41,000 chickens are sacrificed in Villarrasa
The Consejería de Agricultura, Ganadería, Pesca y Desarrollo Sostenible has today declared an outbreak of avian influenza in a broiler farm located in the municipality of Villarrasa , in the province of Huelva, after confirming the Central Veterinary Laboratory of Algete on the detection of the virus of High Pathogenic Avian Influenza (IAAP) in this farm.
By the Veterinary Authorities of Andalucía, the municipality of Andalucía had been included in the special surveillance zone for avian influenza , an area in which, due to the epidemiological situation of the disease in Europe, additional measures were taken to prevent possible buds of the disease in domestic birds.
It is about an exploitation of broilers , distributed in two ships, with a census of 41,000 pollos of six weeks of age .
The suspicion of the illness was derived from the detection of an abnormal increase in mortality in one of the two ships and that began on the 28th of January . The samples taken by the professionals of the Veterinary Services were sent to the Central Veterinary Laboratory of Algete, as the National Aviation Influenza Reference Laboratory in Spain, which has confirmed that it is a strain of HPAI subtype H5N1 . Throughout this process, the Council has been in permanent communication with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
While the possible origin of the focus remains under the study, wild birds are considered to be the most probable source...
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