“Such a case was closed since the house where the incident happened a depopulation was made, which involves culling the poultry chickens,” Sandí told Teletica.com.

Measures to combat a sanitary event is called a sanitary measure, he said, while explaining that there is no treatment for bird flu, the virus would remain spreading and become a source of contagion.

For such a reason, and considering that it is a relatively small population, what we must do is depopulation since this eliminates the outbreak and the possibility of dissemination.

The SENASA chief justified the extreme slaughtering action and claimed that, thanks to this, there are no reports of other contagions in the surrounding area.

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