PCPP take part in recently concluded 87th PVMA Annual Convention and Scientific Conference. Held last February 19 – 21, 2020 at Davao- SMX Convention Center. Some of our members served as:
Last November 28, 2019, several members of the PCPP, with several trays of eggs in tow, took a day-off to visit the Arnold Jannsen Bahay Kalinga Center in Tayuman, Manila to help feed the homeless and the marginalized. While there, the members were exposed to a snapshot of the activities of the center.
KaLiNga derived from the words, KAin, LIgo NG Ayos are exactly what the beneficiaries of the center undergo. After some positive reminders on how to navigate through life in the streets, they take their bath, given fresh set of clothes, groom themselves, followed by sharing session on life’s lessons and then fed with unlimited rice, 2 viands. This phase addresses the recreation of the individual’s self-image, which is the first step towards returning one’s dignity. The two other phases address the restoration of self-respect and self-worth through providing education and skills for them to secure employment and livelihood.
The exposure gave us a glimpse of the hardships these people go through every day on the streets, the story of their lives, their hopes and aspirations in life. It was great pleasure to be part of this activity and be able to touch some lives and hopefully we made a difference.
“PCPP has been in the forefront of consultations during outbreaks of economically important diseases more notably Avian Influenza and ND. PCPP members were in constant dialogue with government agencies preparing protocols before, during and after outbreaks. We have learned many lessons in the past conventions, and we will need to continue learning more. This year’s convention’s theme is “Ensuring Healthy Poultry, People and Community”.”
-Dr. Renato Rollan (2019 PCPP President)
“This year’s event recognizes that the health of people is connected to the health of animals and environment through its theme, “Ensuring Healthy Poultry, People and Community: A Shared Responsibility”. This encapsulates that unity is essential and everyone plays a role in achieving optimal health outcomes for humans, environment and animals, specifically poultry.”
– Ronnie D. Domingo, DVM, Msc. (OIC, Director BAI)
“As we embark on another edition of the Poultry School, we certainly hope that you will again benefit from this major undertaking of the PCPP. With the theme “Ensuring Healthy Poultry, People and Community: A Shared Responsibility”, we aspire to provide you insights on the One Health concepts and make our world a better place to live in. The “One Health” concept was introduced at the beginning of the 2000s and summarized as human health and animal health are interdependent and bound to the health of the ecosystems in which they exist. We endeavor to bring these models to you, so that together we can implement improvements following the One Health approach. “
– Dr. Cezar Policarpio (Chairman ,2019 Poultry School)
PCPP Members full force during the 2-day Poultry School
Faces of 2019 PCPP Poultry School
Staying competitive in poultry business requires updated knowledge and skills in poultry
management. This is not only measured in terms of technical expertise but also equally important is the aspect of human resources management in a constantly changing environment.
With this, the poultry industry players need to open their eyes to opportunities and at the same time be wary of potential threats and challenges. This can only be made possible if everyone is well informed and equipped with the right skills and attitude.
The Philippine College of Poultry Practitioners, Inc. warmly invites you once again to its annual Poultry
School, which is now on its 19th year. For this year, PCPP tackles new innovation and practices in housing systems plus a revisit on poultry and disease management, with the addition of the financial aspects of the business.
Italy has experienced a second H5N8 wave of cases since July and a report by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) highlighted there had been 48 outbreaks in poultry and 9 highly pathogenic H5 detections in wild birds between 1 September and 15 November.
Epidemiological investigations have suggested that sharing of vehicles and personnel have led to the spread of the disease in densely populated poultry areas.
Meanwhile, the UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has posted an update assessment regarding the H5N6 developments in the Netherlands, saying the discovery of the virus in mute swans is of concern because of their migratory patterns, which could cause a threat until February.
Defra is keeping the UK risk level for highly pathogenic avian influenza at medium for the time being, saying the focus was now on the potential spread of H5N6 virus rather than H5N8 which devastated Europe last winter.
Source : http://www.poultryworld.net/Health/Articles/2017/12/Different-strains-of-bird-flu-emerging-around-the-world-230106E/
SOURCE: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/948010/chickens-culled-nueva-ecija-quarantine-bird-flu-poultry#ixzz4zrrhXHEI
CABIAO, Nueva Ecija — Workers culled 42,000 chickens in a village here on Nov. 21, provincial administrator, Alejandro Abesamis, said on Monday, but neither he nor local officials had explained why.
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol on Tuesday also neither confirmed nor denied that a new outbreak of avian influenza had struck this town, only saying the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) was still waiting for confirmatory tests.
Piñol said: “We commend the farm owner and the local veterinary officials for their vigilance. While waiting for confirmatory tests, they took it upon themselves to act … There is therefore no reason to be alarmed.”
“The DA (Department of Agriculture) is in full and complete control and necessary safeguards are in place,” he said in a text message.
Cabiao is near San Isidro, one of two towns quarantined in August by the DA due to bird flu infestations that forced veterinarians and poultry owners to kill about 300,000 birds there.
Sources said the chickens were raised by a poultry farm in Barangay Concepcion here. Local government records show that 15 poultry farms operate in Cabiao, five of which have been inactive since September.
Soledad Garcia, municipal veterinary officer, would not comment on the birds’ destruction, saying she was prohibited from discussing issues by the protocol established after the bird flu outbreak in August.
Possible resurgence
A bird flu outbreak was first announced on Aug. 11 in San Luis town in Pampanga province. A month later, President Rodrigo Duterte declared the outbreak over.
Given the possible resurgence of bird flu in Nueva Ecija, the DA will implement for the first time its new set of protocols created with the Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries (PCAF).
According to Piñol, culling operations will now only be done in the affected farms. Other farms surrounding the area will only be subjected to random tests.
Quarantine zones and control areas surrounding the bird flu infestation site will also be removed, unlike the protocols used during the first outbreak.
This time, Piñol said, the new guidelines will not stop the movement of poultry stocks during an outbreak. In August, BAI released a memorandum banning the shipment of chickens and poultry products from Luzon to the Visayas and Mindanao.
New protocols
“These new protocols are in line with international standards and approved by the industry stakeholders during the last PCAF meeting,” Piñol said.
The DA is also planning to enforce a clustering system, by dividing the country into zones to contain any future outbreaks. Luzon will be Cluster A, Visayas, Cluster B, and Mindanao, Cluster C.
“If there will be an outbreak in the Visayas, or Cluster B, we can tell other countries [which] import meat from us that Cluster A and Cluster C are safe,” Piñol said.
“That’s what they also do in other countries like Brazil and India. When we buy buffalo in India, we source it from areas with no reported cases
The Philippines is confident it will regain its bird flu-free status by yearend, more than four months after it was hit by the H5 strain of the avian flu virus.
Concerned officials said that since the bird-flu outbreak hit egg-producing provinces in Central Luzon in early August, there has been no case reported.
Ronnie D. Domingo, officer in charge of the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI), said that the Paris-based OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health)recognises a country as bird flu-free once it does not report any new outbreaks 90 days after the last disinfection of affected areas. In the case of the Philippines, it will be on Dec. 20.
As early as September, Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol declared that the country’s bird-flu crisis was over. The August outbreak was the first in at least 10 years.
Domingo said that they intend to send an official report to OIE by Dec. 20 that states the Philippines is already bird flu-free.
Sentinel birds
“We will inform them (OIE) that we have already conducted disinfection procedures and have controlled the movement of animals,” Domingo was quoted as saying by the Business Mirror.
“The OIE does not give official recognition. What is important is that we report to them 90 days after our last disinfection so that our report will come out in the OIE database that the Philippines is already cleared of the AI (avian influenza),” he explained.
Domingo also said the government was set to deploy sentinel birds in affected farms in Jaen and San Isidro towns in Nueva Ecija province, and in San Luis, Pampanga, this week.
The 35-day observation period would start once the sentinel birds have been deployed. The deployment of sentinel birds is part of our interventions to ensure that an area is totally free of avian influenza,” he said.
The sentinel birds, which will be grown and observed in the affected areas, must test negative for bird flu to ensure that the area is free from the virus.
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