Two Newcastle Disease Outbreaks
PERU - Authorities have notified the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) about two outbreaks of Newcastle disease in late August in the south of the country.
9 September 2008
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The first outbreak killed 800 birds around 25 days of age in a backyard flock of 2500 birds in Arequipa. The remaining birds were destroyed and the outbreak is described as 'resolved'.
In a second outbreak described as 'continuing', almost all of a 4500-bird backyard flock in Cusco died. The surviving six birds were destroyed.
