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Mexico will begin vaccinating birds in high-risk areas this week to prevent the spread of the highly contagious H5N1 strain of bird flu in the country, authorities said on Tuesday.
Last month, Mexican authorities detected a serious strain of H5N1 bird flu on a commercial farm in the state of Nuevo Leon, on the border with the United States.
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Commonly called bird flu, the disease is typically transmitted by wild birds in the fall and winter, but experts are concerned that the H5N1 strain has not followed previous trends, declining during the northern hemisphere summer.
The rapid spread of the variant has led to massive culls this year. So far, at least 52 million birds have been slaughtered for health reasons in Europe, Mexico's Agriculture Ministry said, compared with 50.2 million in the United States.
Source: Reuters | Notícias Agrícolas
