Nine states report more avian flu in poultry, including more layer farms

Extra H5N1 avian flu detections have been confirmed in poultry flocks in 9 states over the previous 2 days, together with an enormous layer farm in Pennsylvania that has almost 2 million birds, in keeping with the most recent notifications from the US Division of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Well being Inspection Service (APHIS).

Layer farms have been exhausting hit in a number of states, and the most recent occasion in Pennsylvania’s Dauphin County will doubtless add to ongoing egg provide shortages. The virus additionally struck one other industrial farm in Pennsylvania, a broiler facility in Cumberland County that has 30,000 birds.

In Ohio, one of many nations latest sizzling spots, the virus was confirmed at 9 extra industrial farms, together with six turkey farms, two layer farms, and a layer pullet farm.

Different states reporting occasions at industrial farms embody California (turkeys) and Maryland (broilers). APHIS additionally confirmed the virus at two dwell chook markets in New York, one in Queens County and the opposite in Bronx County.

5 states have new detections in yard flocks, together with Michigan, Arizona, Colorado, Pennsylvania, and Kansas.

For the reason that outbreaks started in early 2022, the outbreaks have led to the lack of a report 156 million birds throughout all 50 states and Puerto Rico.

Earlier Nevada dairy herd had authentic cattle genotype

Following the APHIS’ announcement yesterday of a second H5N1 genotype, D1.1, detected in dairy cattle, a spokesperson from the Nevada Division of Agriculture informed CBS Information that an earlier detection in December in Nye County concerned the sooner genotype, B3.13. Nevertheless, the 4 newest detections in Churchill County concerned the D1.1 genotype, which is circulating in wild birds and has been linked to 2 extreme human infections.

The spokesperson stated two extra Churchill herds are in quarantine, pending USDA lab outcomes, and the signs in cows contaminated with D1.1 are comparable to people who had been sick with the B3.13 genotype.

In different developments, the APHIS at the moment confirmed two extra detections in dairy herds, each from California, elevating the nationwide complete to 959 and the state’s complete to 738.