A business turkey flock in Daviess County, Indiana, examined constructive for extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), making it the state’s first HPAI case in a business flock in additional than a 12 months.
The Indiana State Board of Animal Well being (BOAH) introduced the case, which concerned 13,071 turkeys.
The premises has been quarantined, and each a 10-kilometer management space and a 20-kilometer surveillance zone have been established. In response to BOAH, there are 45 business flocks and 48 yard flocks within the management space, and 56 business flocks within the surveillance zone. The surveillance zone not solely consists of a part of Daviess County, but additionally parts of Martin and Greene counties.
In response to info from america Division of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Well being Inspection Service (APHIS), the final time a business poultry flock in Indiana was struck by HPAI was on December 13, 2022, with that case additionally occurring in Daviess County.
Indiana was the primary state to have a business poultry flock struck by HPAI throughout the 2022-24 outbreak, when on February 8, 2022, the virus was confirmed in a flock of 29,000 business turkeys in Dubois County. 9 different business poultry flocks had been hit by HPAI by the tip of that 12 months.
One other Kansas flock contaminated
APHIS reported that one other business upland gamebird flock in Kansas was struck by HPAI. The most recent case was confirmed on January 22 in Mitchell County, with 5,800 birds affected.
That is the fifth occasion of an HPAI an infection in a business operation in Kansas in 2024. 4 of these concerned gamebirds in Mitchell County, whereas the opposite was a business layer pullet flock in Rice County.
To be taught extra about HPAI circumstances in business poultry flocks in america, Mexico and Canada, see an interactive map on WATTPoultry.com.
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