Poultry Farmers, please let's watch out and embrace aggressive biosecurity. I was at Katsina last month to render some veterinary consultancy services. The farmers were lamenting the outbreak of this highly pathogenic Avian influenza which has been responsible for the mortality of several thousands of birds.
Now, the disease is fast spreading cutting across several state borders. Here is a recent report from Poultry site.Com:


Fri, 31 Jul 2015

NIGERIA - Four more outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza have been reported in Nigeria.

The outbreaks were of the H5N1 strain.

In total, 3879 birds were infected out of a susceptible population of 6747.

Most of the birds, 3417, died from the disease, but another 2089 were destroyed to prevent further spread.

The outbreaks occurred on three farms and one backyard holding. Two of the affected farms had point of lay birds that had been purchased from an infected state and transported to a non-infected area.

The third farm held layers, cockerels and pullets of around one year old, and the backyard operation held 178 one-year-old layers.

The outbreaks occurred in Abia, Enugu and Lagos.

http://m.thepoultrysite.com/news/35531

Heaven help us

Avian flu again

Eeser:
Avian flu again

Yes o. A farm in katsina lost over 100,000 birds. For biosecurity reasons, I avoided visiting any poultry farm because I could be a means of infection/carrier to other outside the state

Are you serious? Yet Fg has not deemed it fit to sensitise us on this.

nnachukz:
Are you serious? Yet Fg has not deemed it fit to sensitise us on this.

Well, I can't say much on that for now. I hope the information gets to the Federal livestock department asap

VetDoc:


Well, I can't say much on that for now. I hope the information gets to the Federal livestock department asap

OK. I hope so as well.