Egypt: LB virus closes the farm and 4 thousand billion loss

Mohamed Al Ghanim: new disaster befell the poultry industry in Egypt, was the mutation of a new virus lB or chronic respiratory mutated and is endemic in Egypt, where he hit Baatarth or new lineage of poultry farms on the level of the great Republic.
, Causing the closure of about 4 thousand farms in 2011 and to losses in excess of one billion pounds, after the death of 15% of the herd poultry broiler farms and private life of 22 days until the age of 35 days where the stage of offering for sale of poultry in the markets.

Sources revealed a high-level Al-Ahram that the General Authority for Veterinary Services, headed by Major General Osama sound to make strenuous efforts in coordination with the teachers viruses veterinary various Egyptian universities and centers of production of serums and vaccines, and private Research Institute of vaccines and veterinary vaccines, the Ministry of Agriculture, to collect samples from poultry infected with the virus dangerous than bird flu intensified and revealed the General Union of Poultry Producers that in 2011 a year havoc on the poultry industry, where the rising feed costs by 40%, adding that the export of poultry from Egypt avoided the world after endemic bird flu and the failure of eradication efforts after the export than in 2006 about 10% of the total production hatching eggs and chicks for Europe, Africa and the Gulf States.