The USA Division of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Well being Inspection Service (APHIS) formally reported the presence of extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a flock of business turkeys in Cherokee County, Iowa.
The case, reported by APHIS on June 3, impacted 1,00,000 birds. It was initially reported by the Iowa Division of Agriculture & Land Stewardship (IDALS) on June 2, however the measurement of the flock was not shared.
Previous to this HPAI detection, Iowa had solely had one flock affected by the virus in 2024, in accordance with the APHIS. That was a flock of 4,287,400 business laying hens in Sioux County, with that case being confirmed on Might 28. In 2023, Iowa misplaced 2,894,200 birds to HPAI, down from 15.9 million in 2022. Two of the flocks misplaced in 2023 concerned greater than 1 million birds, with the biggest involving 1.6 million.
That is the primary time since 2022 a flock in Cherokee County has been struck by HPAI. That yr, three flocks have been affected, all of which concerned business meat turkeys. Two of these instances have been confirmed in December 2022. A kind of flocks had 50,000 turkeys and the opposite had 105,000 turkeys. The opposite case was confirmed in March 2022, and 88,000 birds have been affected.
To study extra about HPAI instances in business poultry flocks in the US, Mexico and Canada, see an interactive map on WATTPoultry.com.
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