On 27 July 2024, Brazil officially announced the end of the Newcastle Disease (ND) outbreak recently discovered in the south of the country, which had led to the suspension of its poultry exports.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock has indicated that it had already notified the World Organisation for Animal Health and that biosecurity protocols on poultry farms are being strengthened and implemented across all of Brazil’s producing states, reducing the scope of the animal health emergency zone to specific municipalities, given that there are no new suspected foci of the disease.
They also indicated that federal and state teams continue to carry out control and surveillance measures within a 10-kilometre radius around the initial ND focus, and that the affected establishment will be monitored for 42 days to verify whether the virus is still circulating. Following this period, and with a negative result for the presence of the pathogen, the farm will return to full operation.
For the remaining farms in the region located within the agricultural emergency zone, release will be carried out through specific protocols.