Argentina's National Food Safety and Quality Service (Senasa) recently reported the country's first H5 avian flu detections in mammals, which involves sea lions found dead in Tierra del Fuego, an archipelago on the southern tip of South America, according to a government statement translated and posted by Avian Flu Diary, an infectious disease news blog. Chile, Argentina's western neighbor, has reported more than 16,000 sea lion deaths. Peru has also reported the virus in sea lions. Argentina is the sixth country in the Americas to report avian flu in mammals, according to a recent update from the Pan American Health Organization. Besides Chile and Peru, the others are the United States, Canada, and Uruguay.
Russia has reported an H5N1 avian flu outbreak at a poultry farm housing more than 3 million birds, World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) said in a notification today. The farm is located in Bashkirskaya, a rural village in Bashkortostan in southwestern Russia, about 860 miles east of Moscow. The outbreak began on August 9, killing 15 of 3,193,373 birds.
Source: umn.edu
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