Jalisco Mexico: 870,000 birds die from Avian (Bird) flu

Posted on July 1, 2012 • Filed under: Latin America Health, Mexico

Bird flu has killed about 870,000 birds, sick or killed, a dozen farms in Jalisco (western Mexico), Mexican authorities confirmed on Saturday that found that there are 1.7 million birds affected.
“The number of birds that have died from disease or depopulated as a control and eradication are 870,000, until today,” he said in a statement the National Health Service, Food Safety and Food Quality (SENASICA), which did not specify the number of animals slaughtered. The body under the Ministry of Agriculture reported that 1.7 million have been detected in birds affected, about 6,120,500 were reviewed in the medical device implemented in recent days in the Los Altos de Jalisco. Read Article

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