BRASILIA: The Brazilian authorities confirmed a case of chicken flu at a zoo in its capital after two birds had been discovered useless there final week.
Brazil, the world’s high exporter of hen meat, has suspended its shipments to greater than 20 international locations as a result of an avian flu outbreak that started in mid-Could.
Brasilia’s zoo closed on Could 28 after discovering a useless pigeon and useless duck that it suspected had been circumstances of the illness.
Samples from the birds revealed “the detection of a case of extremely pathogenic avian influenza”, the Federal District’s Agriculture Secretariat stated on social media Tuesday (Jun 3).
“With the affirmation of the outbreak … the closure of the zoo will stay in impact till Jun 12, if no new circumstances are detected on-site.”
This brings the overall variety of lately reported chicken flu circumstances in Brazil to 5, in response to the ministry of agriculture.
The primary case was recorded on Could 16 at a farm within the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul.
Avian flu has unfold globally lately, resulting in mass culling of poultry, some human deaths, and a spike in egg costs.
Infections in people may cause extreme illness with a excessive mortality price, in response to the World Well being Group, however the virus doesn’t seem to maneuver simply from individual to individual.
Human circumstances detected to date had been largely in individuals who had shut contact with contaminated birds and different animals, or contaminated environments.
