New case of bird flu: Senasa confirmed another positive contagion in Cordoba

After confirmation of a new case of bird fludetected by the National Service for Hygiene and Food Quality (Senasa), the country reached the figure of 12 contagious Throughout the national territory. Argentina reaches the number after the agency detected another barnyard bird on a property in the province of Cordoba.

Thus, the territory governed by Juan Schiaretti announced its seventh positive case of AI H5. The same happened in samples taken from birds such as chickens, ducks and geese from an establishment located in the town of Los Álvarez, in Santa Rosa del Río Primero.

As the agency officially reported, after the confirmation of the case, agents from the Córdoba Regional Center of Senasa carried out the corresponding sanitary actions in the property in question.

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Simultaneously, the province continued the rakes throughout its territory. In it, 11 roadside checks were carried out in which agents of the Regional Center of Córdoba del Senasa, the Provincial Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock and the Provincial Police participated.

Among them is one of the actions that took place in the province in which the regional authorities of Senasa reported on the state of affairs. They also communicated possible contact routes, recommendation measures and new regulations during a meeting with representatives of the poultry chamber, who expressed their support for the sanitary actions carried out by the organization throughout the country.

The agency explained that “in this way, with more than 100 notifications tracked by Senasa, there are 12 confirmed cases in wild and barnyard birds so far. (7 in Córdoba, 1 in Buenos Aires; 1 in Jujuy; 1 in Neuquén; 1 in Salta and 1 in Santa Fe).

In Neuquén, the authorities of the national organization met with the mayor of Zapala and with institutions in the region to take stock of the situation. This was done after a case was registered in the Laguna Blanca area.

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At the same time, Senasa agents scoured this land with national parks, wildlife and health personnel.

In Entre Ríos, border controls were reinforced, due to the appearance of an AI case in Uruguay and the same procedure was followed at the border crossings with Bolivia (where AI cases were also detected). registered) and Paraguay, from the provinces of Chaco and Formosa.

In the latter province, the health agency carried out terrestrial and aquatic monitoring in the wetland of La Estrella in Fortín Soledad and El Escondido (department of Patiño) and in Guadalcázar (department of Bermejo) where the presence of birds in good apparent health and without clinical signs signs compatible with avian influenza.

This place was chosen because it hosts migratory birds of different species and is close to Bolivia and countries where positive cases of influenza have been detected.

In addition, as a precautionary measure, the agency urged the productive sector to strengthen the management, hygiene and biosecurity measures of its poultry farms and to notify it immediately of any detection of nervous, digestive or respiratory clinical signs, reduced egg production, water or food consumption and high mortality in domestic or wild birds.

Finally, it was recalled that in the event of observation of the presence or suspicion of clinical signs compatible with HPAI in birds or discovery of dead domestic and/or wild birds, notify Senasa by going to the one of its offices; through the “Senasa Notifications” application, by sending an email to [email protected]; by entering the “Notify Senasa” section of the agency’s website or by sending a WhatsApp to 11-5700-5704.

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