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March 9, 2023
Buenos Aires - The countries of the Southern Cone of America agreed to create a technical commission on highly pathogenic avian influenza (IAAP) that will analyze a joint regional response to the presence of the virus and aspects related to the commercial exchange of avian products.
This was defined by the meeting of the Permanent Veterinary Committee (CVP) of the Southern Cone that deliberated, yesterday and today, at the headquarters of the National Service of Agri-Food Health and Quality (Senasa) with the presence of authorities and professionals of the veterinary services of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.
The meeting, led by Javier Suárez, executive director of the National Service of Agricultural Health and Food Safety (Senasag) of Bolivia, who holds the pro tempore presidency of the CVP, evaluated animal health strategies at the regional level in general although, the greatest attention was focused on the issue of highly pathogenic avian influenza that entered the Southern Cone in December to Chile and was
Last year the CVP had issued the preventive health alert for the presence of IAAP in some countries of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) and its descent from the north through migratory birds.
"We understand that avian influenza arrived in the region to stay, as already happens in other regions of the world, so we decided to ask the American regional of the World Organization for Animal Health to organize a workshop seminar in which world experts with a field profile will talk, which will give us the reassurance of scientific knowledge and expertise in the field in order to develop accurate strategies to face this disease
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Likewise, a communication was made via zoom with representatives of Peru, Colombia and Ecuador, countries that make up the CAN who presented the situation of IAAP in their countries and the actions taken to control it.
The presence of IAAP on the continent led the CVP and the CAN to strengthen their links within the framework of the already existing agreement between both regional blocks
March 9, 2023
Buenos Aires - The countries of the Southern Cone of America agreed to create a technical commission on highly pathogenic avian influenza (IAAP) that will analyze a joint regional response to the presence of the virus and aspects related to the commercial exchange of avian products.
This was defined by the meeting of the Permanent Veterinary Committee (CVP) of the Southern Cone that deliberated, yesterday and today, at the headquarters of the National Service of Agri-Food Health and Quality (Senasa) with the presence of authorities and professionals of the veterinary services of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.
The meeting, led by Javier Suárez, executive director of the National Service of Agricultural Health and Food Safety (Senasag) of Bolivia, who holds the pro tempore presidency of the CVP, evaluated animal health strategies at the regional level in general although, the greatest attention was focused on the issue of highly pathogenic avian influenza that entered the Southern Cone in December to Chile and was
Last year the CVP had issued the preventive health alert for the presence of IAAP in some countries of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) and its descent from the north through migratory birds.
"We understand that avian influenza arrived in the region to stay, as already happens in other regions of the world, so we decided to ask the American regional of the World Organization for Animal Health to organize a workshop seminar in which world experts with a field profile will talk, which will give us the reassurance of scientific knowledge and expertise in the field in order to develop accurate strategies to face this disease
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Likewise, a communication was made via zoom with representatives of Peru, Colombia and Ecuador, countries that make up the CAN who presented the situation of IAAP in their countries and the actions taken to control it.
The presence of IAAP on the continent led the CVP and the CAN to strengthen their links within the framework of the already existing agreement between both regional blocks