Avian influenza outbreak in California hit the egg industry hard

Lead: Xinhuanet, Los Angeles, Jan 8 (reporter: Si Jiuyue) a recent outbreak of avian influenza in Southern California, U.S.A In order to prevent the spread of the epidemic, the governor of California and the U.S Department of Agriculture announced a state of emergency in the epidemic area on the 8th In announcing the state of emergency, California governor Davis said the bird flu, called exotic Newcastle disease, is highly destructive and has the potential to destroy the entire poultry industry Within hours of Davis's announcement of the state of emergency, the U.S federal government's Department of agriculture also announced that it would expand the isolation area of new castle disease from the original five counties in Southern California to eight counties Larry Hawkins, spokesman for the Ministry of agriculture, said the three newly listed counties have yet to find infected poultry, which are buffer zones set up to prevent the spread of the epidemic California is the third largest egg producing state in the United States, and Southern California is an important base of California's egg industry The outbreak of the external Newcastle disease has threatened California's egg industry with an annual output value of 3 billion US dollars Since the discovery of exotic Newcastle disease in Southern California in December last year, the California government has listed five southern California counties, including Los Angeles and San Diego, as quarantine areas, and slaughtered 1.2 million poultry suspected of contracting the flu At present, more than 9 million of California's 12 million laying hens are in the quarantine area, where poultry and their products are prohibited from flowing However, the eggs can still be transported out of the isolation area after treatment, because the external Newcastle disease has no impact on the human body, and people will not spread the disease In 1971, there was an external Newcastle disease in Southern California At that time, 12 million poultry were destroyed, which caused a serious blow to the egg industry in the United States (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: