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ILOILO City – Following the bird flu outbreak in Pampanga, the City Veterinarian’s Office created a Committee on Animal Health Protection (CAHP).
With the office’s Committee on Human Health Protection, it will be under the Iloilo City Avian Influenza Task Force – local counterpart of the Regional Avian Influenza Task Force in Western Visayas activated by the Department of Agriculture (DA).
“Our plan is also to reactivate the task force formulated in 1997 during the H1N1 or swine flu outbreak. We will update the membership,” said Dr. Tomas Forteza, city veterinarian.
The CAHP is divided into four teams – surveillance, rapid action, quarantine, and census.
The surveillance team is in-charge of conducting surveillance and collection of blood samples of chickens from five critical areas in the metropolis including barangays Sooc and San Jose in Arevalo district; Airport in Mandurriao; Hinactacan in La Paz; and live bird market at the Iloilo Central Market.
The rapid action team is in-charge of the action to be made once a chicken here is found to be positive of bird flu.
“The quarantine team will quarantine the area where the sick chicken came from, while the census team will account how many chickens died or affected by bird flu,” said Forteza.
Related to this, Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog directed city offices to intensify awareness campaign on bird flu.
“We advise the public to be vigilant and be informed of the advisory from the Department of Health and City Health Office, although there’s no case of bird flu in the city yet,” said Mabilog.
Bird flu is a contagious viral disease of both domestic and wild birds.
Among the symptoms are chicken’s severe depression and lack of appetite; drastic decline in egg production; swollen and bluish combs and wattles; dehydration; severe congestion of musculature; severe congestion of conjunctiva; excessive mucous exudate in tracheal lumen; severe hemorrhagic tracheitis; severe kidney congestion; urate deposits in renal tubules; hemorrhage and degeneration of the ovary; and hemorrhage and erosion of the gizzard lining. (Iloilo City PIO/PN)
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