With Avian influenza (AI) a extremely contagious viral illness affecting each home and wild birds, it’s a massively essential obligation for each farmer to pay attention to the consequences of this illness.
CP – as a number one agro-industry and animal husbandry firm – goals to share information and experience in animal husbandry and animal care methods with farmers and collaborative companions in Cambodia.
Dr. Kriangsak Laosakul, Assistant Vice President of Animal Health Department, mentioned a powerful biosecurity system is crucial when elevating poultry, one thing Cambodia adheres to on all its livestock farms.
Understanding the categories and signs of AI, managing any suspected circumstances and implementing biosecurity practices are outlined in three key factors.
Also often called “bird flu”, AI is a extremely contagious illness affecting birds together with chickens and geese, in addition to wild fowl species.
A serious concern in poultry farming, ought to there be a case of AI, in keeping with the laws all contaminated birds should be culled, with out exception, and their our bodies burned to forestall a widespread outbreak.
Types of AI
There are two sorts of AI, primarily based on virulence of pathogenicity.
Low Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (LPAI)
Low pathogenicity avian influenza happens naturally in wild birds and may unfold to home birds.
In many circumstances, contaminated birds might present solely gentle signs or none in any respect. LPAI typically poses a risk to human well being.
LPAI viruses have the potential to mutate into extremely pathogenic strains of fowl flu. For occasion, The H9N2 pressure is a LPAI virus which has been recognized to unfold globally.
Symptoms:
There could also be no obvious signs;
Mild respiratory signs together with coughing, sneezing or a transparent discharge operating from the nostrils of birds;
Declining egg manufacturing and deformed eggs;
Loss of urge for food.
Mortality fee: 5-10%.
Highly pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI)
Highly pathogenic avian influenza spreads quickly and has a better mortality fee than LPAI.
CP Cambodia adheres to a powerful biosecurity system on all its livestock farms.
HPAI has been detected and eradicated 3 times in US home poultry.
One particular subtype, HPAI H5N1, has proven the power to quickly unfold throughout areas.
H5N1 is the HPAI virus of most concern globally as geese can carry such a AI with out displaying any signs after which transmit it to chickens.
Symptoms:
Bruising and swelling of the pinnacle;
Redness of the toes and ankles;
Respiratory signs, diarrhoea, seizures;
Sudden dying inside two to 3 days.
High mortality fee: 90-100%.
What to do if AI is suspected
Stop the motion of contaminated chickens, isolate suspected chickens and preserve them separate, use separate employees and tools, and spray disinfectant in associated areas.
Report instantly to the authorities for inspection.
Collect samples from suspected chickens for testing.
If a check is confirmed as optimistic, all chickens should be culled, and the farm should be disinfected as a typical measure.
Preventing avian influenza
Implementing sturdy biosecurity measures and adhering to strict hygiene practices are essential
in stopping the unfold of fowl flu.
There are two key elements for implementing efficient biosecurity.
3.1. Preventing direct an infection
Select chickens from a trusted origin with out AI.
Do not combine chickens of various species, particularly chickens and geese, and/or of various origin.
Avoid interplay with wild birds.
Raise chickens in standardised housing.
3.2. Preventing oblique an infection
Restrict access to the elevating space.
Farmer and staff ought to put on protecting clothes and footwear.
Vehicles and tools should be disinfected earlier than coming into the elevating space.
Dr. Kriangsak Laosakul, Assistant Vice President of Animal Health Department.
Animal feed should be from dependable supply and stored correctly.
Water needs to be as clear as attainable and from a protected supply.
Farm must implement a pest management programme;
Keep all tools clear, with no sharing between farm and housing.
Dispose of and handle waste as crucial.
Ensure surroundings is clear.
Public well being considerations
While the danger of human an infection with AI is low, repeated publicity to contaminated chickens or extremely contaminated environments can enhance the danger of contracting fowl flu.
The virus can enter the human physique by means of the eyes, nostril, mouth or the inhalation of contaminated air (by means of droplets or mud particles), with transmission attainable by means of contact with contaminated surfaces, adopted by touching the face.
Symptoms of fowl flu in people fluctuate in severity. They can vary from the gentle (pink eyes, respiratory points) to the extreme (pneumonia, fever, muscle aches).
With this illness, it normally spreads by means of unprotected contact with contaminated birds, and practising good hygiene, particularly after holding poultry, is essential for prevention.
It is advisable to keep away from consuming undercooked rooster or eggs, though the danger of transmission by means of consuming stays unclear.
All CP medicine and feed merchandise are high quality, extremely environment friendly and of excessive customary, serving to to raised forestall avian influenza (AI).
With its imaginative and prescient of being the “Kitchen of the World”, Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) – the agro-industrial and meals conglomerate headquartered in Thailand – has been investing in Cambodia underneath the title “CP Cambodia Co, Ltd” since 1996.
CP Cambodia operates three important businesses – “feed, farm and food”, with the distribution of its merchandise, each wholesale and retail, centered on social and environmental accountability.
CP Cambodia stays dedicated to supporting Cambodian farmers by offering information, assets and knowledgeable steerage to make sure the success and sustainability of their poultry operations.
Customers fascinated by consulting on animal well being or buying CP animal medication merchandise to be used or on the market, please contact 012 318 040, go to the CP Cambodia Facebook web page or use the QR codes.
