The president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorassured this Tuesday that the problem of bird flu not “serious” although several states have put farms in quarantine and pointed out that they are analyzing whether it is an export or import difficulty.
I do not consider it serious (the bird flu outbreak) but we are going to report it anyway,” the president said during his morning press conference from the National Palace.
López Obrador thus referred to the situation that, according to press reports, it has affected more than 850,000 birds in the country.
It is export and import, that is, because if we have a problem we can also import (the disease)”, he pointed out.
And he pointed out that this Tuesday afternoon the panorama of bird flu in Mexico would be reported.
We are making decisions that have to do with the opening, if tariffs are also going to be removed so that we can get cheaper food for the people,” he said, referring to his plan to combat inflation.
Merchants warn of shortages of chicken, eggs and turkey in times of greater consumption
A few days ago, Mexican businesses that sell chicken, egg Y turkey warned of the urgency of stopping the spread of bird flu AH5N1 in Mexico because it would generate shortages prior to Thanksgiving in the United States and the December holidays, the time of greatest consumption.
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Last week, in the northern states of Sonora and Nuevo León, producers slaughtered 300,000 birds by instructions of the National Agrifood Health, Safety and Quality Service (Senasica) to prevent the spread of this disease, which mainly affects birds.
This situation has led the agency to apply an internal quarantine to the states of Sonora, Nuevo León and Jalisco, to reduce the possible spread of the avian influenza virus.
Mexico notified the first case of the AH5N1 avian flu strain to the World Organization for Animal Health (OMSA) last month in a wild bird in the municipality of Metepec, in the State of Mexico, neighboring the Mexican capital.
Meanwhile, the General Directorate of Animal Health (DGSA) of Senasica has confirmed the presence of AH5N1 avian influenza in nine states of the country: Aguascalientes, Baja California, Chiapas, Chihuahua, State of Mexico, Jalisco, Nuevo León, Puebla and Sonora.
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