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The flu's devastating economic toll for Minnesota's turkey industry remains an unnerving recent memory. Across the U.S., more than 79 million birds have died from the virus since 2022, according ...
The Minnesota Board of Animal Health is working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture “to investigate the transmission of the virus in this case,” officials said.
(Reuters) -The ongoing U.S. outbreak of avian flu in dairy cattle reached Minnesota on Thursday as the state announced its first infected herd. The Minnesota Board of Animal Health said the farmer ...
Avian influenza, also known as avian flu or bird flu, is a disease caused by the influenza A virus, which primarily affects birds but can sometimes affect mammals including humans. [1] Wild aquatic birds are the primary host of the influenza A virus, which is enzootic (continually present) in many bird populations.
On 20 January, Iraq reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu on a farm in the city of Samarra, which killed 63,700 birds out of the 68,800-strong flock, according to the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). The remaining birds were subsequently culled.
The agency is advising enhanced safety measures in Minnesota and South Dakota, where turkey flocks with more than 500 birds should be isolated, monitored and tested for bird flu within 72 hours ...
On July 31, a study found 2 farmworkers who had not been tested for bird flu had antibodies against it. [89] On August 9, the Colorado Department of Public Health reported bird flu in domestic cats, including indoor-only cats. [90] In late August, H5N1 had spread to dairy cow herds in California. [91]
Even after 940,000 chickens on the Minnesota farm are slaughtered, there will only have been about 3.4 million birds killed this year. Minnesota has now lost a total of more than 5.5 million birds ...