Biological tsunami: Avian influenza in Mexico

摘要

The great concentration of birds in Jalisco, Mexico, difficulty of initial diagnosis and other factors have contributed to this epidemic. Disease outbreaks in livestock production, such as the current avian influenza outbreak in J& Mexico, can lead toprofound changes in both production and the food chain. This outbreak, which was the subject of the Avian Influenza Symposium at the 38th Aneca Annual Convention this past April, started on June 9,2012, with reports of high mortality in layers in the egg production corridor comprising Acatic, Tepatiltlan and the area of Los Altos in the state of Jalisco, Mexico (see map). Meanwhile, the nearby Atemajac Valley, a large broiler production area, was not infected with the virus.