The National Agricultural and Food Safety Service (Senasag) reported the “Detection of an Avian influenza outbreak of high pathogenicity (IAAP) in backyard birds” In the municipality of Cuevo, Cordillera Province of the Department of Santa Cruz.
“The diagnosis was confirmed on August 30 by the Official Laboratory Unalab Santa Cruz, after attending a suspicion recorded on August 28 in a livestock property of the Tartagalito community, where respiratory and neurological clinical signs were observed in domestic ducks and chickens,” he quotes a press release from Senasag.
The Health Service, given this situation, activated the National Zoosanitary Emergency System (Sinaez) and a Team of 24 veterinarians and technicians He mobilized to do control, surveillance and health education in the area.
“To date, 58 properties have been inspected in the surveillance area, resulting only one positive (index case). The constant monitoring actions will continue for 28 days to confirm the eradication of the outbreak, ”says the official report.
Government
The Departmental Health Service (headquarters), of the Government of Santa Cruz, also announced that it has started, since last week, with a series of preventive and surveillance actions Epidemiological in the municipality of Cuevo.
“From the first Avian flu report in birds, we have worked in a coordinated manner with Senasag and Sedacruz, which are the entities responsible for the control and management of animal disease. Our role focuses on the surveillance of the health of the population, especially on people who have had direct contact with poultry,” said the director of the Headquarters, Julio Koca.
Aviar or avian flu influenza is a highly contagious viral disease that mainly affects birds, but can also affect humans.
