Minnesota has had two extra industrial meat turkey flocks suffering from extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).
The Minnesota Board of Animal Well being (MBOAH) reported on its web page that on June 27, the presence of HPAI used to be showed in Otter Tail County and Swift County.
The Otter Tail County flock concerned 67,362 turkeys, whilst the Swift County flock concerned 25,302 turkeys.
Those two new detections convey the full choice of industrial poultry flocks suffering from HPAI in Minnesota to fifteen. Previous to this, the closing case of HPAI in Swift County used to be showed on June 18, whilst Otter Tail County has now not had an example of HPAI since November 2023.
Different Minnesota counties to have certain circumstances of HPAI in industrial poultry in 2024 come with Pipestone, Stearns, Lyon, Meeker, Morrison and Dodge. Meeker County has had probably the most flocks affected with six.
No state has had extra flocks struck through HPAI all through the 2022-24 outbreak. In 2022, virus gave the impression in 81 flocks, and in 2023, it gave the impression in 34 flocks.
To be informed extra about HPAI circumstances in industrial poultry flocks in the US, Mexico and Canada, see an interactive map on WATTPoultry.com.
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