I attended a meeting of United Broiler Raisers Association in Quezon City Saturday. It was an emergency meeting and was presided by Mr. San Diego. The meeting was about the H5 flu that was accidentally discovered in some ducks in a backyard farm in Calumpit, Bulacan. As you know, embryonated duck eggs are being exported to Hong Kong from Bulacan and exporting means that some tests have to be done.
During the meeting, members were not at all worried about the effect of the news to the market price of broilers. Number 1, the supply is uniformly low (Signal Number 1) and Number 2, the price in public markets has increased after the news was released. Maybe it helped that there is a political problem.
H5 by the way is not dangerous to humans. The ducks in that farm were healthy looking and there was no mortality, no morbidity either. No cross infection from ducks to chickens were seen, as the BAI already tested the chicken in that backyard farm.
Confirmation about this case will be released in about a week and it will come from a laboratory in Australia.
Again, no potential danger is seen in this case. No commercial broiler farm is within the 3 km radius that the BAI quarantined.
As a precaution, all were reminded to intensify biosecurity in farms.
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Kailangang mag painit ng buwaya para mapainit ang katawan nya at mapataas ang metabolism nya. Kaya pag nagpapatunaw, nagpapa-init sila sa araw.