The final reported case of extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) within the U.S. was on April 18, 2023, greater than three months in the past. Is it time for the poultry trade to let down its guard?
“I don’t suppose that anyone can provide you a crystal ball and inform you for positive what’s going to occur sooner or later,” John R. Clifford, veterinary commerce coverage advisor, USA Poultry & Egg Export Council (USAPEEC), defined on the 2023 Hen Advertising Summit.
“However there are different issues that trouble me from the standpoint of the way forward for HPAI.”
In the course of the 2022-2023 HPAI outbreak, greater than 57.7 million industrial poultry had been depopulated. HPAI most dramatically impacted the layer trade – with 44.4 million depopulated, equal to 12% of your entire section – adopted by turkeys and broilers.
Stopping future HPAI losses
The present H5N1 pressure of HPAI contaminated wild birds in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa and has induced document losses of home poultry in Europe and North America. Extra lately, circumstances had been reported in South America as nicely.
Biosecurity is one of the simplest ways to forestall the unfold of HPAI, Clifford warned. These measures embrace perimeter barrier areas, private protecting gear (PPE) and manure and little administration.
Investing in biosecurity is a greater software than vaccinations, which may influence commerce, masks the illness and sluggish identification.
“It is not going to eradicate HPAI by itself. It would assist cut back HPAI, but it surely is not going to eradicate it. The easiest way to eradicate it’s prevention,” he added.
To study extra about HPAI circumstances in industrial poultry flocks in america, Mexico and Canada, see an interactive map on WATTPoultry.com.
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