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Venezuela issues bird flu alert in five states

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Venezuelan authorities announced this Friday the state health alert in coastal states Anzoategui, Miranda, Nueva Esparta, La Guaira and Sucre after the discovery of avian influenza in pelicans.

In a joint decree of the ministries of agriculture and science Government He explained that the warning would be in effect “for 90 days”, counting from November 29 last year.

Text promulgated by the Minister of Science, Gabriela Jimenezindicates that “inspection, monitoring and surveillance” activities among the population of Puerto Piritu in Anzoategui State (northeast) indicated that pelicans had “clinical signs” consistent with avian influenza.

This, the letter continues, is “the first report” of the virus in Venezuela, “which has so far historically been free from avian influenza.”

Among the measures being considered by the authorities are quarantine in the states with a health warning, a ban on the movement of live birds and fertilized eggs from the municipalities of Fernando de Peñalver, San Juan de Capistrano and Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual, from Anzoategui, as well as how slaughter of positive birds.

“Highly pathogenic avian influenza epidemics can spread rapidly, devastate the poultry industry and cause severe trade restrictions, and even some strains of highly pathogenic avian influenza have the ability to infect humans, posing a threat to public health,” agriculture portfolios warned. and science.

After the release of the resolution, Minister Jimenez assured via Twitter that “technical teams are performing monitoring and surveillance tasks” in the presence of the virus, and added that there are similar reports of infected pelicans in other countries in the Americas.

(As reported by EFE)


Source: RPP

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