The USA Division of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Well being Inspection Carrier (APHIS) formally reported the presence of extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a flock of business turkeys in Cherokee County, Iowa.
The case, reported by means of APHIS on June 3, impacted 1,00,000 birds. It was once to start with reported by means of the Iowa Division of Agriculture & Land Stewardship (IDALS) on June 2, however the dimension of the flock was once no longer shared.
Previous to this HPAI detection, Iowa had simplest had one flock suffering from the virus in 2024, in step with the APHIS. That was once a flock of four,287,400 industrial laying hens in Sioux County, with that case being showed on Might 28. In 2023, Iowa misplaced 2,894,200 birds to HPAI, down from 15.9 million in 2022. Two of the flocks misplaced in 2023 concerned greater than 1 million birds, with the biggest involving 1.6 million.
That is the primary time since 2022 a flock in Cherokee County has been struck by means of HPAI. That yr, 3 flocks have been affected, all of which concerned industrial meat turkeys. Two of the ones instances have been showed in December 2022. A type of flocks had 50,000 turkeys and the opposite had 105,000 turkeys. The opposite case was once showed in March 2022, and 88,000 birds have been affected.
To be informed extra about HPAI instances in industrial poultry flocks in the US, Mexico and Canada, see an interactive map on WATTPoultry.com.
View our proceeding protection of the international avian influenza state of affairs.