Health
Mexico reports its first H5N1 bird flu infection
Mexico has reported a primary case of the extreme H5N1 pressure of avian influenza, the Paris-based World Group for Animal Well being (WOAH) stated on Friday.
The virus was detected in a wild chicken within the Metepec district to the west of the capital Mexico Metropolis, the WOAH stated, citing info from the Mexican authorities.
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“This report represents the primary isolation of a HPAI virus subtype H5N1 in Mexico, which occurred in a non-poultry chicken and in one of many migratory wild chicken corridors that cross the nation,” it stated.
A employee for the Mexican Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Growth, Fisheries, & Diet sanitizes a truck used to move chickens amid a chicken flu outbreak in Mexico, on Feb. 26, 2013.
(HECTOR GUERRERO/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
Extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), generally referred to as chicken flu, has killed poultry flocks in the USA and Europe this yr, with consultants involved that the virus has not abated as beforehand in the course of the northern hemisphere summer season.
Mexico has skilled outbreaks of one other chicken flu pressure, H7N3, in elements of the nation previously decade, together with instances earlier this yr.