Mexico: Strategic H5N1 vaccination to protect poultry production
In the presence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A/H5N1, the Senasica instructed the strategic vaccination of long-lived birds in areas of high zoosanitary risk, with the purpose of protecting national poultry production and guaranteeing the supply of chicken meat and eggs.
The vaccination will be carried out in accordance with a strategic plan designed by the technicians of the General Directorate of Animal Health (DGSA) of the Senasica, in coordination with the National Union of Poultry Farmers (UNA), which provides in the first instance to protect the parent birds and breeders, since they are the origin of the productive chain.
At this time there are vaccines that three laboratories produced in Mexico for sale abroad, but due to the presence of HPAI A/H5N1, it has been requested that they include distribution in Mexico.
Until now, Agriculture technicians have confirmed the presence of A/H5N1 in four commercial farms, three of them in Sonora and one in Nuevo León, as well as in three backyard farms, in Chiapas, Chihuahua and the State of Mexico. Similarly, cases have been reported in wild birds in wetlands in the State of Mexico and Jalisco; in a protected nature reserve in Texcoco, and in parks in Baja California, Aguascalientes and Puebla.
