Thursday, January 5, 2012

Egypt: Billion loss due to mutation of the virus "ib"

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Came a new crisis on the poultry sector in Egypt, was in a mutation of a new virus, " IB " or commonly known as respiratory chronic and endemic in Egypt, where he hit Bslalth new poultry farms large over the country, causing the closure of about 4 thousand farms in 2011, a loss exceed one billion pounds, after the death of 15% of the flock of poultry farms, especially beef, from the age of 22 days to 35 days.
revealed high-level sources for the "gate of Al-Ahram" that the General Authority for Veterinary Services, chaired by Maj. Osama Selim, made strenuous efforts, in coordination with professors viruses veterinary various Egyptian universities and centers of production of serums and vaccines, especially the Research Institute of vaccines and veterinary vaccines, the Ministry of Agriculture, to collect samples from poultry infected with the virus dangerous than avian flu in ferocity, and become fierce in the case of their union together in a farm one. On the other hand, she said sources within the Union of Producers of poultry, the virus "IB" mutated, cause poor egg production of cattle and the deformation and to prevent hatching, unlike the cases of mortality rapidly to 15% of the herd, although the deaths natural, does not exceed 2 to 3% at most.

1 comment:

Duff Smith said...

OK, I looked up "IB" virus in Wikipedia because there sure wasn't any "LB" virus. It stands for infectious bronchitis, which somehow got through the translator as an acronym.