Minnesota’s 18th industrial poultry flock to be suffering from extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in 2024 concerned 4,300 industrial turkey breeder toms, reported the USA Division of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Well being Inspection Provider (APHIS).
The affected flock is in Kandiyohi County and the presence of HPAI was once showed on July 9.
On that very same day, two different industrial poultry flocks have been suffering from HPAI. APHIS previous reported {that a} industrial turkey breeder rooster flock in Kandiyohi County and every other industrial turkey breeder rooster flock in Renville County had examined certain, respectively involving 21,900 and 15,400 hens.
Along with Kandiyohi and Renville, the next counties have had showed instances of HPAI in 2024: Otter Tail, Swift, Pipestone, Stearns, Lyon, Meeker, Morrison and Dodge.
No state has had extra flocks struck via HPAI all the way through the 2022-24 outbreak. In 2022, virus gave the impression in 81 flocks, and in 2023, it gave the impression in 34 flocks.
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To be informed extra about HPAI instances in industrial poultry flocks in the USA, Mexico and Canada, see an interactive map on WATTPoultry.com.