Republic of Bashkortostan: Poultry farm in Avdon to destroy livestock with influenza

Part of the chicken population will be destroyed at the Bashkirskaya poultry farm near Ufa. This was reported in the State Committee of the Republic for Veterinary Medicine. The department said that the preliminary diagnosis of "highly pathogenic avian influenza" was confirmed. Sick birds will be seized, slaughtered in a bloodless way and burned.
On Friday, August 11, an emergency meeting of the emergency interdepartmental commission was held. it developed an action plan to eliminate the threat of epizootics.
“According to the plan, sick birds in the focus of the disease will be destroyed, and in the threatened zone, all birds kept will be vaccinated .. The State Veterinary Service has a sufficient number of vaccines and has already begun vaccination. A request to the inhabitants of the settlements of the threatened zone to treat with understanding and provide a bird for vaccination, "the ministry said in a statement. The threatened zone
includes settlements within a five-kilometer radius around the poultry farm in Avdon. These are the villages of Avdon, Zhukovo, the villages of Sergeevka, Uptino, SNT "Garrison", "Dubrava", "Otdykh", "Solnechny-3", "Ryabinushka", "Etalon". All of them are located in the Ufa region. The State Committee for Veterinary Medicine assured that the department's specialists have experience in eliminating
outbreaks of bird flu and " have the necessary machinery and equipment to stop the outbreak," which will be eliminated "as soon as possible."
Local residents were advised to isolate poultry and keep it out of the way, as well as to exclude contact with wild and synanthropic birds. Farm owners are advised not to release birds into open water, not to buy or sell poultry products - MEAT , eggs , fluff, etc. If birds are found dead or symptoms of disease are detected, owners should immediately contact the veterinary service, the department added.
The department of Rospotrebnadzor in the republic reported that people are also infected with bird flu. Transmission of the virus is possible through close contact of people with poultry, eating meat and eggs of sick birds without sufficient heat treatment.
"The isolation of infected birds is dangerous, which, when they get on plants, into the air, into water, can infect a person through water when drinking and bathing. The incubation period is longer than that of ordinary influenza, and lasts an average of five days. The disease begins with an increase in temperature up to 38 ° C and above, muscle and headaches, sore throat. Watery liquid stools, repeated vomiting are possible. The condition deteriorates rapidly. After two or three days, a wet cough appears, often with an admixture of blood, shortness of breath. Then there may be difficulty in breathing " , the department said.
If such symptoms appear, Rospotrebnadzor recommends that you immediately consult a DOCTOR.
As RBC Ufa reported, employees of the Bashkirskaya poultry farm discovered a mass death of chickens on the evening of August 9. On the morning of August 10, the samples were sent to a specialized laboratory in Vladimir. The largest poultry farm in the republic in Avdon is temporarily closed. The company's products will be withdrawn from stores.