A brand new case of extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) was confirmed in Merced County, California, on January 18.
This specific occasion concerned a industrial desk egg layer pullet flock, with 285,600 pullets within the flock, in accordance with data from the US Division of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Well being Inspection Service (APHIS).
That is the fourth case of HPAI in a industrial poultry flock in California throughout 2024, and the third in Merced County. The opposite two instances within the county have been confirmed on January 3 and concerned 764,300 layers and 534,800 broilers. The state’s solely different detection in a industrial flock was a broiler flock in Sonoma County.
Upland gamebirds contaminated in two states
The one different two industrial operations to be hit for the reason that final HPAI replace on WATTPoultry.com concerned industrial upland gamebird operations, during which the birds have been being raised for launch.
A kind of instances was in Spink County, South Dakota, and concerned 1,900 birds. That case was confirmed on January 16. The opposite was confirmed in Mitchell County, Kansas on January 11, and included 1,400 birds.
Kansas has had 4 industrial flocks affected by HPAI in 2024, whereas that is the primary of the yr for South Dakota.
In 2023, South Dakota had extra flocks struck by the virus than some other state. Through the yr, 36 industrial flock infections occurred in South Dakota.
So far, 4 states have had industrial operations affected by HPAI. These embrace California, Kansas, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
To study extra about HPAI instances in industrial poultry flocks in the US, Mexico and Canada, see an interactive map on WATTPoultry.com.
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