Argentina’s poultry industry has been declared free of highly pathogenic avian influenza, but the virus was deemed to be the cause of recent sea lion deaths in the country.
Coast Guard and port authorities in the Argentine beach resort of Mar del Plata Saturday closed the South breakwater after the National Service of Agrifood Health and Quality (Senasa) confirmed two cases of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5 in sea lions in the area where 4 dead specimens were found.