The Minister of Agriculture, Oscar Ordeigexplained this Wednesday that they had detected a case of avian flu on a poultry farm in the Poniente region (Lleida) and that all containment measures are taken to prevent the spread of the virus. The advisor stressed that confirmation from the Ministry of Agriculture is still missing, but that the Generalitat is already mobilizing to control the epidemic.
The appearance of this positive obliged to activate the health alert for this disease and establish restrictions within a 10 km radiuswhere poultry farms are immobilized. Surveillance will also be reinforced within a 3 km radius around the detected outbreak. The minister also stated that All birds on the affected farm will have to be culled.
Ordeig insisted on the need to take measures because it is a disease “very contagious, very deadly and obligatory eradication”, although he clarified that it does not affect people due to the consumption of meat and eggs.
The minister also explained that there is no poultry farm within 1 km of the homewhich should facilitate containment of the disease. “It’s good news,” he said.
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