Extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has resurfaced in California, because the virus has struck a business poultry flock within the state for the primary time since early February.
Consistent with data from the USA Division of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Well being Inspection Provider (APHIS), the presence of the virus was once showed in a business turkey flock in Merced County on October 23. The flock incorporated 31,600 turkeys.
The one different business flock in California to be affected by way of HPAI in 2023 was once a duck breeder flock, additionally in Merced County.
In 2022, 15 business poultry flocks in California skilled HPAI infections, with the primary of the ones being showed on August 22 of that 12 months. The ones circumstances resulted in the lack of about 707,000 birds within the state.
Avian flu continues to unfold in Minnesota
APHIS additionally reported that every other premises in Minnesota has been hit by way of HPAI. The state’s most up-to-date an infection came about in a flock of 34,400 business meat turkeys in Meeker County.
The Meeker County flock is the 90th business poultry operation in Minnesota to be struck by way of HPAI within the 2022-23 outbreak. The state’s first case was once showed on March 26, 2022. Of the ones 90 affected flocks, 11 had been in Meeker County, with 3 of the ones being showed this month.
To this point in 2023, the HPAI has struck business poultry or gamebird operations within the following states: Minnesota, California, Iowa, South Dakota, Utah, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Kansas, Mississippi, Virginia and Tennessee.
In Canada, HPAI has struck business poultry within the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec in 2023.
View our proceeding protection of the international avian influenza state of affairs.
To be told extra about HPAI circumstances in business poultry flocks in the USA, Mexico and Canada, see an interactive map on WATTPoultry.com.