Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Mexico avian flu outbreak causes $50 million in losses


    The H7N3 avian flu outbreak in Jalisco, Mexico, has caused the loss of 2.5 million chickens and $50 million, according to reports in the country's poultry sector.
    Jalisco accounts for 55 percent of the country's egg output, and while Japan (Mexico's main foreign customer for eggs) has resumed imports, European and African countries have continued their bans. Roughly 3.4 million birds are currently carriers of the virus, according to reports from Mexico's food safety agency, Senasica.
    Authorities are calling for more healthy chickens to be vaccinated against H7N3 to stop the spread of the virus, and private labs in Mexico are working to produce 80 million doses in the next three weeks to meet demand.

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