The bird flu epidemic in Yangjiao Town, Maoming, Guangdong Province has been eliminated

Introduction: the quotation date occurred in Yangjiao Town, Maogang District, Maoming City, Guangdong Province With the approval of the Ministry of agriculture of the people's Republic of China, the blockade of the highly pathogenic avian influenza epidemic area in Yangjiao Town, Maogang District, Maoming City will be lifted from March 1 On February 2 this year, an unusual death of ducks was found at a farm in huangzhukeng village, Yangjiao Town, Maogang District, Maoming City On February 4, it was confirmed as highly pathogenic avian influenza by the expert group of avian influenza prevention and control in Guangdong Province In the afternoon of that day, the Maogang district government of Maoming City took measures such as blockade, killing, disinfection and emergency immunization of poultry in the threatened area, killing more than 20000 poultry in the three kilometer epidemic area, and immunizing all 1.2 million poultry in the eight kilometer radius threatened area The last poultry in the epidemic area has been slaughtered for more than 21 days Since the blockade, no new epidemic has occurred and no human infection has been found On February 29, the Department of agriculture of Guangdong Province organized Guangdong provincial animal epidemic prevention supervision office and other institutions to test the epidemic area, and reported to the Ministry of agriculture of the people's Republic of China for approval to lift the blockade of the epidemic area NRG national Ministry of agriculture requires local animal epidemic prevention supervision agencies to continue to strengthen epidemic monitoring and take active epidemic prevention measures to prevent the recurrence of highly pathogenic avian influenza NRG