The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Mapa) confirmed, in an official statement, this Friday (25) that chickens-d’angola and pavões died in the biopaque of Rio de Janeiro, after being contaminated by aviary flu. 
The place, which is shared with other species, housed 16 d’angola chickens and most birds died as a result of the disease, leaving only three. One peacock also died and another presented clinical signs.
“With the confirmation of avian flu, the animals were sacrificed as a sanitary measure to contain the spread of the virus,” says the map note.
The case was registered on July 17, after the official veterinary service of the State of Rio de Janeiro, linked to the State Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (SEAPA-RJ), to receive alert on sudden deaths of d’angola on site.
On July 22, the Federal Agricultural Defense Laboratory of Campinas, in São Paulo, a reference in South America for the diagnosis of the virus, confirmed that it was subtype H5N1.
To the BioParque Visits were temporarily suspended for risk assessment. The technical team of the site, composed of veterinarians, biologists and zootechnists, performs continuous monitoring of animals for early identification of clinical signs of the disease.
H5N1 virus transmission cases to humans are rare. However, if in this period of monitoring one of these people have some respiratory symptoms, a human suspicious case protocol will be opened, and the person oriented to is in isolation in their own residence.
