A industrial turkey flock in Daviess County, Indiana, examined constructive for extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), making it the state’s first HPAI case in a industrial flock in additional than a yr.

The Indiana State Board of Animal Well being (BOAH) introduced the case, which concerned 13,071 turkeys.

The premises has been quarantined, and each a 10-kilometer management space and a 20-kilometer surveillance zone have been established. In accordance with BOAH, there are 45 industrial flocks and 48 yard flocks within the management space, and 56 industrial flocks within the surveillance zone. The surveillance zone not solely consists of a part of Daviess County, but additionally parts of Martin and Greene counties.

In accordance with info from america Division of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Well being Inspection Service (APHIS), the final time a industrial poultry flock in Indiana was struck by HPAI was on December 13, 2022, with that case additionally occurring in Daviess County.

Indiana was the primary state to have a industrial poultry flock struck by HPAI through the 2022-24 outbreak, when on February 8, 2022, the virus was confirmed in a flock of 29,000 industrial turkeys in Dubois County. 9 different industrial poultry flocks have been hit by HPAI by the tip of that yr.

One other Kansas flock contaminated

APHIS reported that one other industrial upland gamebird flock in Kansas was struck by HPAI. The newest case was confirmed on January 22 in Mitchell County, with 5,800 birds affected.

That is the fifth occasion of an HPAI an infection in a industrial operation in Kansas in 2024. 4 of these concerned gamebirds in Mitchell County, whereas the opposite was a industrial layer pullet flock in Rice County.

To study extra about HPAI circumstances in industrial poultry flocks in america, Mexico and Canada, see an interactive map on WATTPoultry.com.   

View our persevering with protection of the world avian influenza state of affairs.