Every other Minnesota turkey flock hit by means of avian influenza


Meeker County, Minnesota, is the website online of any other industrial turkey flock to be suffering from extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).

The newest showed case concerned a flock of about 72,100 turkeys, in keeping with data from the Minnesota Board of Animal Well being (MBOH) and the US Division of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Well being Inspection Carrier (APHIS). That case was once showed on October 13.

Two days previous, any other flock in Meeker County was once suffering from HPAI, with this flock together with about 115,000 industrial turkeys.

The websites were quarantined, and the birds at the premises had been depopulated to forestall the unfold of the illness.

The 2 Meeker County circumstances are the one two industrial poultry operations in Minnesota to were impacted by means of HPAI to this point in 2023. On the other hand, Minnesota had extra industrial poultry farms suffering from HPAI than every other state in 2022, with 81.

Thus far in 2023, 12 states have had HPAI detections in industrial poultry or upland gamebird operations. The ones are: Minnesota, Utah, South Dakota, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Kansas, Mississippi, California, Iowa, Virginia and Tennessee.

On the other hand, best Minnesota, Utah, and South Dakota have had detections of HPAI in industrial flocks since April.

Replace on Canadian circumstances

Additional info regarding two up to now reported HPAI circumstances in Canada has been launched by means of the International Organisation for Animal Well being (WOAH).

The Canadian Meals Inspection Company (CFIA) in September reported outbreaks in Strathcona County, Alberta, and Maple Creek, Saskatchewan. On the other hand, the company didn’t be offering main points on the kind of flocks or collection of birds concerned.

In step with a record from WOAH, dated October 16, the Strathcona County case concerned a combined flock of industrial meat turkeys and broilers and a complete of 53,600 birds had been affected. The Maple Creek case concerned 9,180 industrial broilers.  

The final time HPAI was once showed in a industrial poultry flock in Canada was once October 6, when a flock in Greenview, Alberta was once affected. On the other hand, CFIA did record a yard flock an infection in Parkland County, Alberta, on October 11.

View our proceeding protection of the world avian influenza scenario. 

To be told 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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