The USA Division of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Well being Inspection Carrier (APHIS) reported that two extra industrial poultry flocks have examined certain for extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).
At the identical day, APHIS presented further main points relating to a prior to now introduced detection of HPAI in Weld County, Colorado.
New flock infections in Minnesota
Consistent with APHIS, the presence of HPAI was once showed in two industrial turkey breeder rooster flocks on July 9, with either one of the ones flocks in Minnesota.
One flock was once in Kandiyohi County and concerned 21,900 birds. The opposite was once in Renville County and concerned 15,400 birds.
With those two new circumstances of HPAI, Minnesota has now had 17 industrial poultry flocks struck through the virus in 2024, however that is the primary time this yr that flocks in Kandiyohi and Renville counties had been affected. Different Minnesota to have showed instances of HPAI in industrial poultry this yr are Otter Tail, Swift, Pipestone, Stearns, Lyon, Meeker, Morrison and Dodge.
No state has had extra flocks struck through HPAI throughout the 2022-24 outbreak. In 2022, virus seemed in 81 flocks, and in 2023, it seemed in 34 flocks.
Replace on HPAI scenario in Colorado
APHIS previous published {that a} industrial laying rooster operation in Weld County, Colorado, was the web page of a showed HPAI an infection, however didn’t unencumber main points relating to how huge the flock was once.
Consistent with up to date knowledge on the APHIS site, that flock concerned 1,790,800 birds.
Colorado has had two industrial poultry flocks suffering from HPAI in 2024. The primary of the ones was once showed in February and concerned a industrial broiler breeder flock in Delta County.
View our proceeding protection of the international avian influenza scenario.
To be told extra about HPAI instances in industrial poultry flocks in america, Mexico and Canada, see an interactive map on WATTPoultry.com.