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UPDATE 1-Philippines now free of H5N6 bird flu, but monitoring another strain

Published 01/19/2021, 01:14 PM
Updated 01/19/2021, 01:20 PM
© Reuters.

(Adds import ban to prevent entry of another strain, quote)
MANILA, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The Philippines is now free of
the highly pathogenic H5N6 bird flu virus, the Department of
Agriculture said on Tuesday, citing a declaration by the World
Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
"As of Jan. 8, the country is now free of the last remaining
A(H5N6) strain of the avian Influenza," having resolved the
outbreaks in Pampanga province and a village in Rizal, near the
capital region, it said in a statement.
However, the Southeast Asian country, a major importer of
chicken and other poultry products, was not dropping its guard
against the disease, it said.
The agriculture department had imposed a temporary ban on
the importation of domestic and wild birds and their products
from France, South Korea, the Netherlands, and Poland, where
another highly pathogenic strain - H5N8 - has been
detected. The Philippines is among the world's biggest meat importers
and consumers, with chicken, pork and beef all a mainstay in the
Filipino diet.
In a report to the OIE, the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI)
- an agency under the agriculture department - said the affected
farms in Pampanga and Rizal had shown no further evidence of the
presence of the H5N6 virus.
"We had not detected any case...among the poultry and other
bird population in the last 90 days after the completion of
cleaning and disinfection in the affected farms," BAI Director
Ronnie Domingo said.
Avian flu outbreaks are a recurring concern for the
agriculture department and the local poultry industry, having
recorded outbreak cases in 2017 and 2018.

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