Bird Flu Cases , Continue to Appear , Across Parts of the US.
ABC News reports that bird flu has
returned to the Midwest earlier than
predicted following a lull of several months.
On August 31, officials said that the highly-pathogenic disease had been detected in a commercial turkey flock in western Minnesota.
Last weekend, a farm in Meeker
County reported a sudden
increase in mortality. .
According to the Minnesota Board of Animal Health, tests confirmed the presence of the disease, and the flock was euthanized to prevent the spread.
ABC News reports that it was the first confirmed case of avian influenza in Minnesota since the end of May.
Cases have been detected in Indiana,
California, Washington, Oregon,
Utah and several eastern states.
While the timing of this
detection is a bit sooner than
we anticipated, we have been
preparing for a resurgence
of the avian influenza we
dealt with this spring, Dr. Shauna Voss, Minnesota Board of Animal
Health senior veterinarian, via ABC.
Highly pathogenic avian
influenza (HPAI) is here
and biosecurity is the first line
of defense to protect your birds, Dr. Shauna Voss, Minnesota Board of Animal
Health senior veterinarian, via ABC.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 414 flocks in 39 states, have been infected since February.
As a result, over 40 million birds,
mostly commercial turkeys and
chickens, have been euthanized.
So far in 2022, avian flu has struck 81 Minnesota flocks and required 2.7 million birds to be killed