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Massa pointed out that there is no risk for the population or for exports

Massa pointed out that there is no risk for the population or for exports

For this reason, he stated that “The work between the government, the provincial governments and the producers is key, to be united and we work together to guarantee that we have the best functioning and we can face these phenomena with the greatest strength and fluidity of information.”

In addition to the head of the Palacio de Hacienda, the announcements were made this Tuesday by the Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Nation, Juan Jose Bahillo, and the president and vice president of Senasa, Diana Guillen and Rodolfo Acerbi.

The head of agriculture specified that the disease “It is not transmitted by the consumption of meat or eggs. and anticipated that financial compensation will be given to backyard bird breeders.

Bahillo stated that “We have worked to raise all safety standards to protect our entire productive sector” explaining that the investment will go to equipment for mobility, computing, human resources and laboratories.

In the same direction, Guillen express: “The success of all the work is to be able to detect the birds that may be affected as quickly as possible so that from Senasa we can proceed with the control measures that must be carried out when the outbreaks appear. The head of Senasa stressed that “The disease is not spread if a sick animal is not handled, what they should do immediately is notify Senasa which will remove them with security measures to analyze them in our National Laboratory”.

For its part, Acerbi explained: “We have three possible scenarios, a wild scenario, a domestic scenario, raising birds for family self-consumption; and a third scenario that is commercial”. He specified that “This is a disease that wild birds transmit and that we cannot underestimate. In the case of the first scenario, it is very important that Anyone who goes on a tourist trip or goes fishing in a lagoon, any dead bird is a suspicion that must be reported. In the second scenario, in the backyard, families have to keep chicken coops closed so that they do not come into contact with other wild animals. In these two scenarios we are working now. The third scenario that is the one that we have to preserve our great jewel, which is the commercial field, we have to take care of it by reinforcing security measures, attending to any mortality that is out of the ordinary”.

As long as avian influenza is found in wild and backyard birds, Argentina will be able to preserve the sanitary status and the normal flow of exports. Birds raised in the backyard are mainly chickens, although turkeys, geese, ducks, among others, are also often raised. Ornamental birds are also kept as a recreational activity for display at local or regional country fairs or shows.

The new measures announced are added to those already implemented in the framework of the health emergency declared by Senasa, through resolution 147/23. The measure contemplates:

  • Raking of the outbreak areas in wild birds and backyards to identify other sick birds; ¨
  • Reinforcement of controls and epidemiological surveillance actions at border posts, at all border crossings, with Chile, Bolivia and Uruguay;
  • Vehicle disinfection, passenger control;
  • Mobilization of agents specialized in birds and emergency management from other departments or regional centers of Senasa, to the offices located on the borders;
  • Continuity in awareness campaigns for early notification; awareness,
  • Training and recommendations for the effort in biosecurity measures in commercial farms, and
  • Articulation together with other public entities in the surveillance and control of the movement of birds, products and by-products of birds.

The authorities explained that the preventive task is carried out through an articulated work with the national Ministries of Safety and Health, National Parks, provincial and municipal governments, the productive sector and veterinary schools.

cases

Currently, when cases are detected, the following tasks are carried out:

  • Surveys of the facilities and conditions of the areas or establishment where the animals were found;
  • Delimitation of a perimeter around the place of the focus to rake and verify possible dead birds or with symptoms compatible with the disease;
  • Consult neighbors, owners of the establishments, or environmental authorities of the provinces, who made the notifications before the suspicions of mortality or symptoms in birds; and
  • Establishment of control posts to prevent the entry and exit of sick animals or personnel who have recently handled them.
  • When it comes to backyard birds, the property is interdicted and the birds that had been in the place where the mortality and positive samples were determined are sanitary slaughtered.

Until Monday in Argentina, five cases have been reported in four provinces of wild and backyard birds:

  • February 14: In the Pozuelos Lagoon, Jujuy -wild birds
  • February 17: In the Laguna de las Mojarras, Cordoba –wild birds-, and
  • February 18: in Alejo Ledesma -backyard birds-, Córdoba;
  • February 18: in Cerrillos, -backyard birds-, Salta; and
  • February 19: in Villa Cañas -backyard birds-, Santa Fe.

Secretary Bahillo added that another 3 cases were detected, with which rise to 8 in the country.

Meanwhile, in the region, cases have been detected in the commercial circuits of Bolivia and Peru; in wild or backyard birds in Uruguay and Chile; and suspected cases, without confirming positive, in Paraguay and Brazil.

Source: Ambito

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