First positive for bird flu in the Community of Madrid: a duck in Pedrezuela

Avian flu has already reached the Community of Madrid, if it is confirmed in the next few hours, in the counter-analysis, the

by the regional Administration, in a Gadwalla from Pedrezuela, 42 kilometers north of the capital .

Foresters from the Community of Madrid were the ones who detected a dead bird in this area, a migratory bird, and who took its corpse to the regional laboratory, where the analysis that has been positive was carried out, specifically in

, sources from the Community confirmed to this newspaper.

After this, the regional administration sent the analyzed remains to the national laboratory, where it is expected that this Thursday the results will be obtained that could confirm the presence of avian influenza in the region.

If this happens, the implications can be serious, both economically and health-wise.

On the one hand, if the presence of the virus in the region is confirmed,

to avoid contagion.

Such lockdowns would affect egg production, for example.

On the other hand, the closures would try to avoid transmission to humans, a contagion that, however, is rare and very difficult to occur, experts point out.

The first human case was detected in

in 1997 and, since then, avian influenza has produced between 800 and 900 fatalities in humans, with the first case in

recently recorded in the United Kingdom last January.

The discovery was made, thus, in a wild bird, and it was a matter of hours before it occurred for the experts, given that up to that moment, in recent weeks, at least four affected regions in Spain had already been registered according to data from the

: specifically, in

.

"Avian flu is one of the infectious diseases that most severely affects poultry farming: it causes high mortality and enormous economic losses. Between 2013 and 2018 alone, it caused the death of 122 million poultry worldwide," he explained in the last few days

,

of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC).

For this reason, the confinement of farms is usually very rigorous, and sometimes even affects entire areas that exceed these facilities, to ensure that there is no passage to humans.

The impact on egg production, for example, is usually important since hens that until now had been outdoors go to live indoors, with the consequent affectation.

Until now,

, to which the one from Pedrezuela would now be added.

In order for the first positive to be confirmed in the analysis carried out by the

, the counter-analysis to be carried out by the

The usual contagion vector for this virus, technically called H5N1, is usually the birds that migrate during these dates from the north to the south of Europe, seeking warmer climates, usually ducks, geese, swans and seagulls.

Although bird flu does not make them sick, it does make the domestic birds they infect.

In Spain, according to data from the Ministry, in 2022 it has already affected farms whose censuses total approximately

The economic implications of an outbreak of bird flu not only affect the animals that must be confined at the time or those that die infected and affected by the disease: there is also another effect, and that is that the usual buyers of the products of the region that has suffered the outbreak usually put

, to ensure that they remain unscathed by the virus.

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