Every other industrial laying chicken flock in Colorado has been suffering from H5N1 extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).
The USA Division of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Well being Inspection Carrier (APHIS) reported that the presence of HPAI was once showed on July 16 in a flock of one,313,800 chickens in Weld County.
That is the second one Weld County egg manufacturing flock to be suffering from HPAI in July. On July 8, the presence of HPAI was once showed in some other flock, with that one involving 1,790,000 birds, jointly bringing that county’s chicken losses past 3.1 million.
The one different example of HPAI to be showed in a Colorado industrial poultry flock in 2024 concerned a flock of 66,500 broiler breeders in Delta County. That case was once showed on February 8.
H5N1 in people, livestock
State and federal well being officers are investigating a human outbreak of H5N1, wherein 4 employees responding to an H5N1 avian influenza outbreak in Colorado have showed circumstances of extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) whilst a 5th employee is a presumed-positive case.
In keeping with a press liberate from the Colorado Division of Public Well being and Surroundings (CDPHE), the employees had been culling poultry at a industrial laying chicken operation within the state and exhibited delicate signs, together with conjunctivitis and commonplace respiration an infection signs. On the other hand, not one of the sufferers required hospitalization.
The U.S. Facilities for Illness Regulate and Prevention (CDC) and the CDPHE didn’t in particular state that this was once a Weld County farm.
APHIS has additionally reported 33 circumstances of H5N1 in industrial dairy herds within the state.
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.