Minnesota has showed its 2nd case of extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a business poultry operation in 2024.
The Minnesota Board of Animal Well being (MBOAH) and United States Division of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Well being Inspection Provider (APHIS) reported that the presence of the virus was once showed in a business breeder operation in Dodge County. Neither company specified the species of the breeder birds, however the selection of birds affected was once 8,500.
That is the primary case of HPAI in Dodge County since December 2022.
The one different business flock in Minnesota to be struck via HPAI was once a business meat turkey flock in Meeker County on April 11. There had been 70,100 birds in that flock.
Right through the 2022-24 HPAI outbreak, Minnesota has misplaced 117 business poultry flocks to HPAI. Of the ones, 81 flocks had been affected in 2022 and 34 had been affected in 2023.
To this point in 2024, the next states have had birds in business flocks inflamed with H5N1 HPAI: Minnesota, Michigan, New Mexico, Texas, South Dakota, Missouri, North Carolina, Colorado, Nebraska, Indiana, Wisconsin, Kansas and California.
To be told extra about HPAI circumstances in business poultry flocks in the USA, Mexico and Canada, see an interactive map on WATTPoultry.com.
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