“ANDin Portugal, the first outbreak was detected on November 30, 2021 in a domestic poultry house in the municipality of Palmela. Since then, 15 GAAP focuses have already been confirmed in our country [gripe aviária de alta patogenicidade] subtype H5N1″, reads in the latest public notice issued by the Directorate-General for Food and Veterinary Medicine (DGAV).

Altogether, 11 outbreaks concern domestic birds, including commercial farms for turkeys, chickens, ducks and a private collection of domestic poultry, and the other four outbreaks cover wild birds.

So far, bird flu has been detected in the districts of Leiria, Lisbon, Santarém, Setúbal and Beja.

The final focus was confirmed on Saturday, in a breeding and rearing farm for breeding ducks in the parish of A-dos-Cunhados and Macieira, in the municipality of Torres Vedras.

Since the beginning of the month, four outbreaks have already been detected in this parish.

On Friday, a focus of infection had been confirmed in a home maintenance farm in Mértola, Beja district.

Second document, second document, are being protected from animals and care animals with control regarding the sites, such as protection animals in protection animals and care with local animal control and surveillance within a radius of 10 kilometers around the focus

DGAV also appealed again to all poultry keepers to comply with biosecurity measures and good poultry production practices, reinforcing the hygiene procedures of facilities, equipment and materials.

In turn, a “notification of any suspicion must be carried out immediately”, allowing the adoption of control measures.

On February 15, the minister of agriculture, Maria do Céu Antunes, sent an order that updates the system for estimating compensation for poultry slaughter, due to the outbreak of avian influenza, a statement said.

According to the sector, due to the outbreak of pathogenic avian influenza in our country, there is no response to the need to adequately identify the identified poultry, namely by updating the compensatory amount in the compensation in case of detection of an outbreak. of the disease”, having as a reference “the evolution of the consumer price index”.

In the same note, the Government detailed “the order signed so that all poultry producers have obtained the States executed as eradication measures adopted to be duly compensated”, adding that “in the corridors of approved approval measures, as is the case of avian flu , there will be 75% co-financing from the European Union”.

DGAV is a central service of direct administration of the State, with administrative autonomy.

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