January 10, 2013
Mexico reports bird flu outbreak at egg farms
Outbreaks of the highly pathogenic bird flu virus have been reported at two Mexican egg farms which had been responded with the culling of about 300,000 birds, according to world animal health body, OIE.
A total of 740 poultry have died from the bird flu virus which emerged in the two egg farms located in the central state of Aguascalientes, a report by the Mexican agriculture ministry stated.
The virus, reported to be the highly pathogenic avian influenza serotype H7N3, is different from the deadly H5N1 strain, which has devastated duck and chicken flocks and caused hundreds of human deaths after it was first detected in 1997 in Hong Kong.
The source of the outbreaks or origin of the infection was still unknown.
