The presence of extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has been showed in two industrial meat turkey flocks in the similar Minnesota county.
In keeping with data from the US Division of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Well being Inspection Carrier (APHIS), a flock of 32,400 turkeys in Stearns County used to be affected on Might 29. Two days later, APHIS showed the presence of the virus in some other Stearns County flock, with this one involving 43,300 turkeys.
Minnesota has had 9 industrial poultry flocks suffering from HPAI in 2024, together with six industrial meat turkey flocks. Additionally affected had been one industrial turkey breeder rooster flock, one industrial egg layer flock and one breeder flock of an unspecified poultry species.
4 of the ones industrial meat turkey flocks and the industrial turkey breeder rooster flock had been in Stearns County.
No state has had extra poultry flocks struck by means of HPAI all the way through the 2022-24 outbreak than Minnesota. In 2022, the virus used to be detected in 81 industrial flocks, and in 2023, it used to be detected in 34 industrial flocks.
To be told extra about HPAI instances in industrial poultry flocks in the US, Mexico and Canada, see an interactive map on WATTPoultry.com.
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