Yucatán

The hens in Umán were culled. The wire carried no photograph of the farm.

Reuters, Friday: Mexico reported H5N1 in 225,860 laying hens in Umán, Yucatán. The first poultry outbreak in more than two years. All of the birds were culled. No human case is in the dispatch.

The Rocket News · Mexico Desk · ParisNovember 6, 2026 · 3 min read

A laying hen, a USDA file photograph carried with a reprint of the Reuters dispatch. It is not the farm in Umán, not the cull, and not Friday.

PARIS — Reuters reported Friday that Mexico told the World Organisation for Animal Health of a highly pathogenic H5N1 outbreak on a poultry farm in the Yucatán. The Paris-based agency, citing Mexican authorities, said it is the country’s first outbreak in poultry in more than two years. The virus was found in a flock of 225,860 laying hens in the town of Umán. All of the birds were culled as a precaution.

Reuters did not report a human infection, a second farm, or a price for eggs. This desk does not add any of those. The last Mexico note in this paper was Hurricane Trudy, on Oct. 19. That storm stays filed. This is Friday’s Mexico note.

The photograph is not the farm and not the cull. Reuters’ own dispatch carried no picture of Umán. What traveled with a reprint was a USDA file photograph of a hen. Umán is not in the frame. It is not Friday.

Wire and further reading: reuters.com

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Trudy is a tropical storm, and the warnings are down.

At 8 a.m. Mountain time the center was about 190 miles west-southwest of Cabo Corrientes, with winds near 60 mph. No coastal watches or warnings were in effect. The National Hurricane Center said it should become post-tropical by early Tuesday.

Hurricane Trudy’s eye sits offshore on a Sunday morning satellite, the Mexican coast to the right of the storm.

Mexico

Hurricane Trudy is 150 miles west of Manzanillo.

At 5 a.m. Mountain time the center was still offshore, with winds near 105 mph, moving northwest at 10 mph. A hurricane warning runs from Manzanillo to Cabo Corrientes. Mexico dropped the warnings south of Manzanillo.

Hurricane Trudy, seen from a satellite, still offshore south of Manzanillo on Saturday morning.

Pacific

Hurricane Trudy is 170 miles south of Manzanillo.

At 9 a.m. Central time the storm was a Category 1, with winds of 90 miles an hour. A hurricane warning runs from Manzanillo to Cabo Corrientes. The center was still offshore.