La Organización Panamericana de la Salud / Organización Mundial de la Salud (OPS/OMS) hace un llamado a los Estados Miembros para trabajar de forma colaborativa e intersectorial con el fin de preservar la sanidad animal y proteger la salud pública. La OPS/OMS insta a los Estados Miembros a reforzar lo...
Desde la segunda mitad de 2022 se ha reportado un aumento de casos de influenza en aves migratorias en Latinoamérica. Los virus influenza A y B son los principales agentes asociados a influenza estacional epidémica en humanos. Los virus influenza A circulan no solo en humanos sino también en animales,...
Commercial inactivated avian influenza H5 vaccine is used as an essential control strategy for avian influenza disease in Egypt. Since the initial outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N8, the virus has diverged with new genotypes and variant viruses continuing to emerge which mainly stand beh...
Nowadays, there is a global concern about outbreaks caused by the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N8 clade 2.3.4.4 which caused devastating losses in the poultry industry sector. This clade was subdivided into two waves: clade 2.3.4.4A from 2014 to 2015 and clade 2.3.4.4b from 2016 until now. I...
Avian influenza viruses (AIVs), Newcastle disease virus (NDV), West Nile virus (WNV), adenovirus (AV) and herpesvirus (HV) play an important role in the health of human and animal populations. However, knowledge of the prevalence of these viruses in wild birds is restricted to some groups (e.g. shorebird...
Justificativa e Objetivos: Em 2009, o Brasil enfrentou a pandemia de influenza A/H1N1pdm09 que infectou, pelo menos, 50 mil pessoas. Em 2020, enfrenta outra pandemia causada pelo vírus SARS-Cov-2 (COVID-19). Por se tratar de uma doença nova, há muita especulação sobre a mesma, assim como comparaçã...