2023-12-17 01:12:55
The Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) strongly called on the countries of the region to maintain a state of alert and collaborate with notification systems to face better the impact of the new avian influenza season, which due to its evolution has been considered an “unprecedented situation.”
Within the framework of the III Regional Meeting of Response to the Emergency of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) held this Thursday in Santiago, Chile, the effect of this virus was estimated for 2024, and it is expected that this will be equal to or greater than the last year, in which 12.5 million birds died or had to be sacrificed to contain the disease.
According to FAO analyses, this new migration season of birds traveling from the north of the continent to the south has a high probability of maintaining behavior similar to the last one.
In the United States, for example, nearly 100 new outbreaks have been recorded in the last 30 days, and in Mexico a recurrence of the H5N1 virus has been recorded in the state of Sonora since last October.
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