Avian flu outbreak in California, eggs and poultry may rise sharply!

Mondo Health Updated on 2024-01-28

There has been another outbreak of avian influenza in the United States, which has already been widely infected in five states and is still expanding. Poultry farms in two recent California countiesAll 250,000 poultry were culled in just one week

On December 4, 31 outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza occurred in nine places, including Minnesota, Wisconsin, California, North Dakota, Arkansas, Georgia, South Dakota, Iowa and Ohio3758 poultry infected and died, 43490,000 poultry were culled

The 2022 avian flu outbreak cost poultry farmers in 47 U.S. states nearly 59 million birdsBird flu outbreaks have caused eggs and turkeys** to soar, there was a sky-high price of eggs, ** loss of more than 6$600 million.

Last week, the California Department of Food and Agriculture confirmed that the avian influenza virus was detected at two farms in Sonoma County last week. There are in the fieldMore than 80,000 chickens tested positive for the avian influenza virus。His family is mainly engaged in egg production. It seems that eggs and chicken and duck meat** should be on the rise recently.

The farmer's neighbor's duck farm suffered even more losses, and the duck farm was almost wiped out170,000 ducks had to be disposed of

Caused by certain subtypes of avian influenza virusesAcute respiratory infections are known as "human avian influenza".From the 24th to the 25th, WHO received a notification from the Ministry of Health of Cambodia that there were two confirmed cases of H5N1 avian influenza in a local village, both of which were female. The first of these cases presented 4 days after the onset of symptoms of fever, shortness of breath and coughTested positive for H5N1 and died while hospitalized

Patients generally present with flu-like symptoms, such as fever, cough, and little sputum, which may be accompanied by systemic symptoms such as headache, muscle aches, and diarrhea, and can be transmitted through the respiratory tract or by close contact with the secretions and excreta of infected birds, or through contact with an environment contaminated with avian influenza virus.

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