The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) has stated that the poultry industry is once again on high alert for a rapid increase in bird flu cases in Asia and Europe.
The virus is highly pathogenic and has produced the slaughter of millions of birds on these two continents, in order to prevent the spread of the disease.
This can be transmitted to human beings, so health entities have been constantly monitoring this outbreak due to its potential risk to public health.
According to specialized media, the pathology has already been identified in 21 human residents of China, who have been diagnosed with infections from the H5N6 virus subtype.
The cases have been found between the end of 2020 and what has elapsed in 2021, reported the media ‘CNN’,
In South Korea's Chuncheon Book province, the OIE was notified of an outbreak of bird flu at a farm containing more than 770,000 poultry. The animals were sacrificed to avoid human and animal infections.
The same was done by the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, which notified health entities on November 10 of the identification of the virus in some poultry in the province of Akita, northeast of that country. For this case, the ministry announced that the virus variant was identified as H5N8.
143 thousand chickens were slaughtered as a preventive measure.
Since last November 1. In the Old Continent, there has been a considerable increase in cases of bird flu. In Germany, two infections of this pathogen were reported in a Spree-Neisse farm with the H1N5 variant.
The same is done by France, which has decreed the confinement of poultry due to the increase in cases of the virus in different bordering countries. The Ministry of Agriculture has reported that it will take preventive measures to prevent the spread of the virus.
In January of this year, the slaughter of almost 400 thousand ducks was reported in French territory, according to Loic Evain, Chief Veterinarian of the Ministry, to the ‘AFP’ news agency.
