As avian flu outbreaks proceed to hit US poultry farms and yard flocks, the US Division of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Well being Inspection Service (APHIS) confirmed extra H5N1 detections in 5 states, together with a second business rooster farm in Georgia, the nation’s high broiler-producing state.
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Georgia’s outbreak entails one other broiler facility in Elbert County, with 130,400 birds on the location. The state just lately ordered a brief ban on live-bird gross sales and exhibitions following its first outbreak on a business farm.
APHIS additionally reported outbreaks at broiler farms in two different states, one in Maryland’s Caroline County at a producer with 108,400 birds and one other in Virginia’s Accomack County at a location that has 441,000 birds. Final week when saying the presumed optimistic within the flock, the Virginia Division of Agriculture and Shopper Providers stated it’s collaborating with counterparts in Maryland and Delaware on a unified response to avian flu incidents on the Delmarva peninsula.
In Missouri, the virus was confirmed at a big egg-laying farm in Newton County that has 1.175 million birds.
Elsewhere, officers confirmed H5N1 at a yard farm in Oregon’s Umatilla County that has 50 birds.
Extra detections in cats, cows
In associated developments, APHIS right this moment, in an replace on H5N1 detections in mammals, reported six extra confirmations in home cats from 5 completely different states, most with January pattern assortment dates. Two detections are in California, with positives additionally reported in Kansas, Louisiana, Iowa, and South Dakota.
APHIS additionally confirmed the virus in a pattern from a harbor seal in Illinois (Prepare dinner County) and a serval in Michigan (Kent County). Each animals have been sampled this month.
In dairy cow developments, APHIS confirmed yet one more detection in a dairy herd, one other in California, elevating the nationwide whole to 930 and the state’s whole to 713.
