A industrial meat turkey flock in South Dakota is the primary case of extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a U.S. industrial poultry operation in roughly three weeks.
The US Division of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Well being Inspection Service (APHIS) reported that the presence of HPAI was confirmed in a turkey flock in Hutchinson County on March 12. There have been 31,200 birds affected.
The detection brings to an finish a lull in new HPAI detections in industrial poultry. The final time HPAI had been confirmed in a industrial operation was on February 21, when three industrial poultry flocks in Dallas County, Missouri, had been affected. These flocks concerned 28,500, 31,000 and 12,300 turkeys.
APHIS additionally reported one other confirmed case of HPAI in Dallas County on February 23, initially reporting that the virus was present in industrial flock of 20,300 desk egg layers. Nevertheless, APHIS has since modified the designation from a industrial flock to WOAH (World Organisation for Animal Well being) Poultry, which is identical designation the company assigns to yard poultry flocks.
The Hutchinson County case is the third industrial flock in South Dakota to be misplaced to HPAI in 2024, however the first industrial poultry flock. In January two industrial upland gamebird operations – one in Edmunds County and the opposite in Spink County – had been confirmed detections of HPAI.
In 2023, South Dakota had extra industrial flocks struck by HPAI than another state, with 36 flocks affected. In 2022, South Dakota ranked second behind Minnesota because the state with probably the most industrial flocks contaminated. Throughout that 12 months, Minnesota had 81 flocks affected and South Dakota had 61.
In January, each of South Dakota’s U.S. Senators – Mike Rounds and John Thune – wrote a letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and U.S. Commerce Consultant Katherine Tai, expressing their help for an avian influenza vaccination program.
View our persevering with protection of the international avian influenza state of affairs.
To be taught extra about HPAI circumstances in industrial poultry flocks in the USA, Mexico and Canada, see an interactive map on WATTPoultry.com.
