The entry of avian influence into the Brazilian commercial team was inevitable, says the Minister of Agriculture

The entry of avian influence into the Brazilian commercial team was inevitable, says the Minister of Agriculture

BRASILIA – The Minister of Agriculture and Gibrear, Carlos Fávaro, ranked this Monday 19, as “inevitable” the entry of the avian influence into the Brazilian commercial team. He stressed that there is maximum security in the Brazilian protection system. “There is no health defense system in the world like Brazil,” he said.

The minister also stated that avian influenza circulated in the world since 2006, but from the “robust system” protection of protection, avian influence had not entered here. “In Brazil Avian the influence entered the commercial team two years after cases in wild birds,” he said.



He participates in a press conference to talk about the zoosanitary emergency situation of the avian influence.

To date, there is a confirmed case of avian influence (high pathogenicity, H5N1) in a commercial farm in the country, in Montenegro, in a Matrixeiro of birds in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre, to Rio Grande do Sul, according to the data of the Ministry of the Respiratory and Nervous Sindice platform of agriculture.

In total, there are 164 cases of disease in wild animals in the country (160 in wild birds and 4 in marine lions), 3 outbreaks in the production of subsistence, internal breeding and 1 in commercial production, for a total of 168 across the country. According to the folder, there are six investigations on the suspicions in progress, two in commercial plants. Investigations are underway with the collection of samples and without final laboratory results.

Chicken exports and derivatives from all Brazilian territory are suspended for 12 destinations. In addition to recent ones, such as Bahrein, Malaysia and Cuba, the export of Brazilian poultry products in China, European Union, Canada, South Africa, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico and South Korea are temporarily suspended, according to a survey by the Ministry of Agriculture.

Source: Terra

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