2023-05-27 01:17:08
Committee will aim to impose actions to combat the disease; first records of contaminated birds occurred this month in wild animals
O Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Mapa) created this Friday, 26, an Agricultural Emergency Operations Center whose objective is to control the spread of avian flu in Brazil. Published in today’s Official Gazette (DOU), the measure seeks to act as an institutional articulation mechanism in response to the state of zoosanitary emergency that has been in force in the country since last Monday, the 22nd, and will last for 180 days. Called COE-Mapa Avian Influenza, the group will be commanded by the Secretariat of Agricultural Defense (SDA) as a way to combat Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (IAAP), which had the first official contamination of the influenza virus, the H5N1, earlier this month. . “Among the attributions of the operations center are the dissemination of information to the population, the identification and adoption of mechanisms to support the bodies of the Map to combat the advancement of IAAP cases”, explains the Ministry through a note issued.
According to the ministerial folder, the virus is highly pathogenic and can cause changes in the bodies of infected birds. In all, eight cases were confirmed in wild birds, seven of them in the state of Espírito Santo and one in Rio de Janeiro. The Rio de Janeiro government is even preparing a contingency plan against avian flu after a wild bird was diagnosed with the H5N1 virus in the city of São João da Barra, in the interior of the State. So far, 38 Brazilians have been examined with suspected contamination and their tests have been negative for the presence of the virus in their bodies. 34 of them in Espírito Santo and four in Rio de Janeiro. In Espírito Santo territory, 33 negative results were given by employees of the Fazendinha park, where one of the contaminated birds was found, and another by a servant of the Institute for Research and Rehabilitation of Marine Animals (Ipram). Another four people have not yet had their results released.
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