U.S. confirms another outbreak of bird flu in Indiana

Staff kill some 1,000 geese at a poultry farm in Lohitzun Oyhercq, southwestern France, on Thursday, Jan.27, 2022. The U.S. Division of Agriculture has reported one other new outbreak of the fowl flu, particularly in an Indiana turkey flock, per Reuters.

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The U.S. Division of Agriculture has reported one other new outbreak of the fowl flu, particularly in an Indiana turkey flock, per Reuters.

• That is the nation’s “first case in a industrial poultry operation since 2020,” in response to Reuters.

What’s occurring: Indiana State Board of Animal Well being despatched samples from the flock to the Indiana Animal Illness Diagnostic Laboratory at Purdue College for testing, in response to the Dubois County Free Press.

• The departments discovered that the H5N1 avian fowl flu killed about 100 birds on Monday night time.
• Denise Derrer, the spokesperson for state board of well being, instructed Dubois County Free Press that 17 completely different industrial or poultry farms needed to quarantine whereas birds are getting examined.

Flashback: There was an identical outbreak within the space in 2016, per Dubois County Free Press.

• That outbreak had thrice the quantity of farms that needed to be quarantined and examined.
• “This can be a much less dense poultry space,” Derrer mentioned.

The larger image: On the finish of January, the fowl flu was detected in the US, as I reported for the Deseret Information.

• A lab evaluation from the Division of Agriculture discovered that the pressure of H5N1 avian influenza had been present in a South Carolina duck.
• This was the primary sighting of fowl flu in years.

Consultants mentioned that it’s unlikely the fowl flu will go onto people and change into a virus as dominant as COVID-19.

• Nevertheless, “it's nonetheless a risk that should be ready for by the federal government and public well being authorities,” Haaretz stories.