24.03.2013

Highly pathogenic H7N3 avian influenza has killed more than 400,000 poultry on nine farms and in four village flocks in Jalisco and Guanajuato states in Mexico, according to a Mar 23 report to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). Five of the nine affected farms are in Guanajuato, but the farm that houses almost 400,000 of the infected birds is in Jalisco. All of the outbreaks began last month. The two states have been at the center of H7N3 outbreaks this year and last that have killed millions of birds.