Avian influenza has been detected in a fourth industrial poultry flock in southern Indiana, state officers mentioned Feb. 19.
Laboratory testing of a second industrial flock of turkeys in Greene County has come again as presumptively constructive for the virus, the Indiana State Board of Animal Well being mentioned. The samples are being verified on the U.S. Division of Agriculture’s Nationwide Veterinary Providers Laboratory in Iowa.
One other potential case was discovered about 5 miles (8 kilometers) away in Greene County earlier within the week. Two earlier circumstances had been present in adjoining Dubois County.
Pending check outcomes ought to point out if the virus is identical as that within the earlier circumstances and if the virus is very pathogenic.
Officers have begun euthanizing the 15,200 birds on the newest farm to stop the unfold of the illness.
A ten-kilometer (6.2-mile) circle has been established across the newest farm in Greene County. 13 industrial poultry flocks inside the new management space are underneath quarantine and will likely be examined frequently, the board mentioned.
Animal Well being Board workers have reached out to identified pastime/yard poultry homeowners within the new management space to schedule testing of birds there, it mentioned.
The company mentioned avian influenza doesn’t current a direct public well being concern and no human circumstances of avian influenza viruses have been detected within the U.S.
The turkey infections are the primary affirmation of extremely pathogenic fowl flu in industrial poultry within the U.S. since 2020, the U.S. Division of Agriculture has mentioned.
A January 2016 outbreak of fowl flu in Dubois County affected 11 poultry farms, ensuing within the lack of greater than 400,000 birds, the Animal Well being Board mentioned.
Indiana ranks third nationally in turkey manufacturing.
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