Ministry of Agriculture creates emergency operations center to control bird flu

Ministry of Agriculture creates emergency operations center to control bird flu

The center will be responsible for a series of actions to fight the disease, registered for the first time in Brazil this month, in wild birds. Wild birds of the species Thalasseus acuflavidus Cláudio Dias Timm The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Mapa) created an Emergency Agricultural Operations Center to control avian flu in the country. The measure was published in the Official Gazette (DOU) this Friday (26). According to Mapa, the new center will be responsible for a series of actions to combat Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (IAAP), registered for the first time in Brazil in wild birds this month. According to the government, so far, eight cases of H5N1 have been confirmed in birds in Brazil, seven in Espírito Santo and one in Rio de Janeiro. All cases involve migratory wild birds. There are no diagnoses of the disease among humans or in poultry for consumption. The COE-Mapa Avian Influenza should disseminate information to the population and adopt mechanisms to support the bodies of the MAPA to combat the advance of IAAP cases. Zoosanitary emergency On Monday (22), the Ministry of Health declared a zoosanitary emergency for 180 days due to the avian flu. What is the state of zoosanitary emergency decreed by the Ministry? This state is declared whenever there is a risk of a disease originating from an animal spreading quickly, as a way for the government to anticipate an outbreak of the disease. The biggest concern, at this moment, is to prevent the avian flu from reaching farms and raising birds for their own food. Avian flu: what is already known about the cases in Brazil Avian flu: what is already known about the first cases in Brazil



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