Sunday, July 1, 2012

Mexico H7N3 in Texas....a while back!

The Previous post mentioned the H7N3 in Texas. This is what I have found:
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The last outbreak

According to FAO, in Mexico there had been so far the presence of this subtype of influenza, H7N3.

The last outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza occurred in 1994, affected 11 states and was the subtype H5N2. Since then the disease remains controlled, the agency said.

The birds showed symptoms of acute and death between 32 and 94 weeks of age.

In 1963 affected turkeys in the United Kingdom, in the early 90's came to Australia where he killed hundreds of chickens and in 2002 an outbreak in poultry farms in San Antonio, Chile, affecting more than 500 000 birds at a cost of $ 31 million.

Also featured twice in Canada: in 2004 in British Columbia, where forced to sacrifice 17 million birds, and in 2007 in Saskatchewan, where a staff of affected players.

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The National Health Service, Food Safety and Food confirmed that issued the permit to import a vaccine from the Asia, and the next week, according to the report of the producers, is coming to Mexico.

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