Mexico detects H5N1 avian influenza in farm near US border

Mexico has detected the severe H5N1 strain of avian influenza at a 60,000-bird commercial farm in Nuevo Leon state on the border with the United States, Reuters reported, citing the government as its source. The discovery at the chicken farm comes just over a week after Mexico reported its first-ever case of H5N1 avian influenza to the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH).

The disease was detected when Mexico’s agri-food health service tested samples from a farm in Montemorelos, Nuevo Leon, after a producer there raised concerns, Mexico’s agricultural ministry said in a statement. Read more