A industrial broiler breeder flock in Missouri and a industrial broiler breeder hatchery in Iowa are the 2 newest operations to be struck by way of extremely pathogenic avian influenza.
In step with data from the USA Division of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Well being Inspection Carrier (APHIS) the presence of HPAI used to be showed at each premises on November 6.
The affected hatchery is in Hamilton County, Iowa, and concerned about 15,000 birds. It’s the first U.S. hatchery operation to be struck by way of the virus all over the 2022-23 HPAI outbreak, in step with APHIS.
The affected broiler breeder operation is in Benton County, Missouri, and concerned 16,600 birds.
With those new circumstances, Iowa has now not had 5 industrial poultry operations inflamed in 2023, with all different occurrences being showed in industrial turkey flocks.
That is Missouri’s first case of HPAI in a industrial poultry flock in 2023. The remaining time the state had observed a industrial flock suffering from HPAI used to be November 28, 2022.
Some other HPAI case in Alberta, Canada
The Canadian Meals Inspection Company has indexed yet another premises to have industrial poultry struck by way of HPAI. The presence of the virus used to be showed at a farm in Willow Creek.
Thus far in 2023, HPAI has been found out at six industrial poultry farms in Alberta.
View our proceeding protection of the international avian influenza scenario.
To be told extra about HPAI circumstances in industrial poultry flocks in the USA, Mexico and Canada, see an interactive map on WATTPoultry.com.