The increase in avian flu cases in countries like Argentina has alerted the São Paulo state government.
In a communiqué published this week, the authorities notified the “need to reinforce biosecurity measures to the maximum degree”.
The avian flu has not reached Brazil, but São Paulo follows the cases in neighboring countries because the transmission occurs through contaminated wild birds.
Thus, the dissipation is made by animals that are impossible to control.
The safety measures involve preventing direct or indirect contact of wild birds, such as wild ducks, with the chickens and chickens in commercial farms.
There is no treatment for the sick animal.
When a case is confirmed on a farm, the animal is slaughtered.
Since the disease is highly transmissible, all specimens in contact with it are also killed.
“We reinforce the need for daily checks of the integrity of the aviary screens, thus preventing free-living birds from having contact with housed birds,” warns the State Secretary of Agriculture and Supply.
“That inside the nuclei, no fruit trees can attract wild birds. Keep the internal area of the poultry nucleus with low vegetation and no water accumulation, especially in this rainy period.”
The fight to prevent bird flu in São Paulo is to protect the primary egg producer and one of the country’s most expressive chicken meat suppliers.
Practically 30% of all Brazilian eggs originated in the state in 2022.
The same year, São Paulo was responsible for about 8% of the national chicken slaughter.
With information from Revista Oeste
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