Extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has struck once more in the U.S. state of South Dakota and the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
Avian influenza in South Dakota
The most recent industrial poultry flock in South Dakota to be suffering from HPAI concerned 29,700 industrial meat turkeys in Beadle County.
The presence of the virus used to be showed on October 31, consistent with the USA Division of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Well being Inspection Provider (APHIS).
To this point in 2023, South Dakota has had 9 industrial turkey flocks suffering from HPAI and one industrial upland gamebird flock. Of the ones 9 turkey flocks, 3 of them were in Beadle County.
South Dakota had 61 industrial flocks suffering from HPAI in 2022.
Avian influenza in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan had its 2nd showed case of extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in industrial poultry of 2023.
In line with the Canadian Meals Inspection Company (CFIA), the most up-to-date case used to be showed on October 31 within the Rural Municipality of Laird.
CFIA has now not but disclosed the kind of birds within the flock, or what number of birds had been concerned.
That is the 3rd HPAI an infection in Laird all through the 2022-23 outbreak, however the different two had been showed greater than a yr in the past – the primary on September 9, 2022, and the second one on September 19, 2022.
Saskatchewan’s handiest different case of HPAI in industrial poultry this yr used to be showed on September 21 within the Rural Municipality of Maple Creek. Ahead of that, HPAI had now not seemed within the province since November 14, 2022.
In 2022, Saskatchewan had 16 industrial flocks suffering from HPAI.
To be told extra about HPAI circumstances in industrial poultry flocks in the USA, Canada and Mexico, see an interactive map on WATTPoultry.com.
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