A business broiler breeder flock in Missouri is newest business poultry operation to be struck via extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in the USA.
In line with knowledge from the USA Division of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Well being Inspection Provider (APHIS) the presence of HPAI used to be showed on the premises on November 6.
The affected broiler breeder operation is in Benton County, Missouri, and concerned 16,600 birds.
That is Missouri’s first case of HPAI in a business poultry flock in 2023. The remaining time the state had observed a business flock suffering from HPAI used to be November 28, 2022.
Every other HPAI case in Alberta, Canada
The Canadian Meals Inspection Company has indexed another premise to have business poultry struck via HPAI. The presence of the virus used to be showed at a farm in Willow Creek.
To this point in 2023, HPAI has been found out at six business poultry farms in Alberta.
View our proceeding protection of the international avian influenza scenario.
To be told extra about HPAI circumstances in business poultry flocks in the USA, Mexico and Canada, see an interactive map on WATTPoultry.com.