The National Agrifood Health and Quality Service (Senasa) of Argentina confirmed two cases of avian influenza (AI) H5 in backyard birds (chickens) in the towns of Villa Tulumba (Córdoba) and Centeno (Santa Fe), adding up to 14 detections of the disease, of more than 100 notifications attended, distributed in Córdoba (8), Santa Fe (2), Buenos Aires, Jujuy, Neuquén and Salta.
Meanwhile, the Senasa Corrientes-Misiones Regional Center agreed with representatives of both provinces to strengthen joint prevention and surveillance work to prevent the entry of the disease into those border territories with Paraguay, for which it held task coordination meetings with authorities farms in both provinces.
IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATION
Within the framework of the health emergency plan issued on February 17 after confirming the first contagion in a wild goose in Jujuy, the notice of a suspected AI case taken by any of the provincial institutions will be immediately notified to the authorities. from Senasa to proceed to take the samples in the field.
The meetings were held at the facilities of the Agro ministries of both provinces, where the flowchart of activities was announced, and communication actions, talks, and training for the general public were coordinated, emphasizing the way to proceed before the discovery of birds with symptoms and/or deaths. On the other hand, Senasa reinforced controls en route and at the border crossings with Paraguay and Brazil.
RANKS IN CÓRDOBA
In addition, since the beginning of the emergency, in Córdoba, rakes are carried out in the establishments in which the positive cases were detected and, in the surrounding properties, samples are taken from birds with symptoms compatible with the disease, and they are treated suspicions and notifications.
Meanwhile, in the province of Jujuy, agents from the Senasa North NOA Regional Center carried out a survey and inspection of the state of the birds in the Popayán lagoon, in the town of El Ceibal, covering the entire water mirror without detecting sanitary news in the wild population. In this region, the first case of avian influenza was verified in a wild migratory bird, of the huallata or Andean goose species, in the Pozuelos Lagoon, in the north of the province, near the border with Bolivia.
CONCERN BEFORE IMMINENT INCOME
The president of the National Animal Health and Quality Service (Senacsa), José Carlos Martin, stated that the poultry sector and the country are experiencing unrest due to the imminent entry of the virus due to the new outbreaks that broke out in the region and especially in some Argentine provinces such as Córdoba. “We are really very concerned, the risk of their entering the country is imminent because there are many cases in Argentina. It is a reality that we have to manage in the region, but the good thing is that Paraguay never had cases, and we can say that this is thanks to the fact that we are a landlocked country, and also due to controls or quick action when cases break out in other countries,” he told 650 AM. He also remarked that for about 8 months they have been working from the National Service for Plant and Seed Quality and Health (Senave) with the corresponding notices and prevention mechanisms, after it became known that the disease was already causing problems in the United States and in Canada, then Europe.
