A report from the World Organisation for Animal Well being (WOAH) revealed a number of similarities between incidences of extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in dairy cattle in Kansas and Texas.
State businesses have reported that three dairies in Texas and two in Kansas have had confirmed instances, however WOAH, in its March 26 report, included info relating to “at the least one dairy farm in Kansas and at the least one dairy farm in Texas.” The counties the place the farms are positioned that WOAH reported on are Seward County, Kansas, and Hartley County, Texas.
Concerning the scenario in each counties, WOAH said: “Industrial dairy milking cows experiencing an unexplained morbidity occasion with some later-lactation cows exhibiting decreased lactation, low urge for food and different scientific indicators.”
In every case, HPAI H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b from bovine origin samples had been confirmed at a United States Division of Agriculture (USDA) Nationwide Veterinary Providers Laboratory.
WOAH didn’t present info regarding sources of an infection, however the USDA Animal and Plant Well being Inspection Service (APHIS), earlier said, “primarily based on findings from Texas, the detections seem to have been launched by wild birds.”
WOAH said that HPAI was confirmed in eight cattle in Texas, whereas in Kansas the presence of the virus was confirmed in a single cow.
The 2 affected counties are additionally considerably geographically shut. Liberal, the Seward County seat, and Channing, the Hartley County seat, are roughly 200 miles aside when touring by freeway.
With the confirmed presence of HPAI in cattle, two livestock species have now been affected in the USA. Earlier this month, WOAH reported that 10 goats in Stevens County, Minnesota, had been struck by the virus. That very same farm in late February had the virus seem in a yard poultry flock, involving 20 birds.
The final time HPAI was confirmed in a U.S. industrial poultry flock was March 12, when a flock of 31,200 industrial meat turkeys in Hutchinson County, South Dakota, was contaminated, in line with APHIS.
To study extra about HPAI instances in industrial poultry flocks in the USA, Mexico and Canada, see an interactive map on WATTPoultry.com.
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