Article published the September 10, 2024
The emergence of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza poses a significant threat to human and animal health worldwide. This summary provides an overview of the surveillance efforts implemented in Peru to combat the spread of H5N1 avian influenza. Joint efforts between the authority, the productive sector, and academia date back to the first influenza outbreak in Chile in 2002. Since then, the go ...
News published on July 25, 2024
The WVEPAH training program is designed for veterinarians and poultry professionals who wish to consolidate and refine their knowledge in areas such as pathology, nutrition, biosecurity, and epidemiology, among others. We are pleased to announce our upcoming course:
Module II: Commercial Layers at the prestigious Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Peru, in May 2025.
The course w ...
Article published the June 3, 2024
IntroductionAvian influenza viruses (AIV) infect animals and humans [1] and thus are of major relevance under the one health context. They are enveloped viruses belonging to Alphainfluenzavirus from Orthomyxoviridae family [2]. These negative sense and single-stranded RNA viruses present a genome that is fragmented into eight segments which encode for eleven proteins. These proteins possess indivi ...
News published on October 24, 2023
Poultry industry experts at the 2024 Latin American Poultry Summit will present information on topics that address avian influenza concerns. The program is organized into four sessions, and the first two sessions will be “Epidemiology of Avian Influenza” and “Vaccination.” Each session will feature two speakers followed by a panel discussion. The Summit is presented by the ...
This member gave a presentation on October 16, 2023
At the following event:
International Avian Influenza Summit 2023
News published on August 11, 2023
The first International Avian Influenza Summit will be a hybrid event hosted in Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA on October 16-17, 2023.
Meet some of the speakers that will appear in this event:
Alberto Torres, PhD
"HPAI Considerations for vaccination from a Primary Breeder’s perspective”
Alberto Torres holds a Veterinary degree from UNAM (Mexico), a MSc ...
This member gave a presentation on August 2, 2021
At the following event:
2021 AAAP Virtual Annual Meeting
This member gave a presentation on August 2, 2021
At the following event:
2021 AAAP Virtual Annual Meeting
Article published the March 22, 2021
Fowl aviadenoviruses (FAdVs) are worldwide-distributed viruses and are the causative agents of the inclusion body hepatitis (IBH) in chickens (1). IBH is characterized by hepatic necrosis with microscopic eosinophil or basophilic intranuclear inclusion bodies in hepatocytes and mortality rates around 10% (2). FAdVs have been grouped into five species (FAdV-A to FAdV-E) on the basis of their genome ...
Article published the July 22, 2019