The United States reported the first outbreak of the deadly H7N9 bird flu on a poultry business since 2017, as the country continues to fight with another bird flu strain that has infected humans and caused the egg prices to hit record heights.
The spread of avian flu, often called bird flu, has ravaged flocks around the world, which disturbs supply and is passionate about higher food prices. Its spread to mammals, including dairy cows in the United States, has raised concerns among governments about a risk of a new pandemic.
The load that has caused the most damage to poultry in recent years and a person’s death in the United States is H5N1.
H7N9 BIRD FLU virus has been shown to have a high death rate for people around the world killing 616 people or 39%of the 1,568 people infected worldwide since it was first discovered in 2013 in China, the World Health Organization said.
WHO has said that both forms of bird flu virus do not appear to transfer easily from person to person.
The latest outbreak of H7N9 in the United States, discovered on a 47,654 commercial broiler breeder breeder in Noxube, Mississippi, was confirmed on March 13, the Paris-based World Animal Health Organization said in a report Monday and cited US authorities.
The Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Health did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The US response to bird flu was interrupted in the first weeks of the Trump administration when federal agencies canceled congress briefings and meetings with the state’s animal health officials, according to Reuters, reporting.
Some of this coordination has since resumed and the USDA says it will spend $ 1 billion to tackle the spread of the virus.
