The virus was found in Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia and New York.
INDIANAPOLIS – Avian influenza has been identified in a fourth group of chickens in southern Indiana and in a non-commercial backyard group on Long Island in New York, officials confirmed Saturday.
Laboratory testing of the second group of truck sales in Greene County has returned as suspected to be contagious, Indiana State Board of Animal Health said. These models are being tested at the US Department of Agriculture’s US National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Iowa.
Another possible story was found about five miles from Greene County earlier in the week. The last two cases were found in areas near Dubois County.
Pending test results should indicate whether the virus is the same as before and if the virus is highly pathogenic, it means that it is more prevalent and spread among birds.
Officials have begun releasing 15,200 birds on the last farm to prevent the spread of the disease and a 6.2-mile circle has been set up around the farm. Thirteen commercial chickens within the new control area are under occupancy and will be inspected regularly, the board said.
As of Saturday, more than 100,000 birds had been released from Indiana in an effort to stem the spread of the disease.
The virus was also detected outside Indiana in a group of commercial poultry in Kentucky, a group of mixed-breed birds in northern Virginia and, more recently, government officials confirmed it had been spotted on Long Island in New York.
New York City officials have placed the area in Suffolk County and the birds on the damaged buildings “will be inhabited by people to prevent the spread of the disease,” the USDA said in a statement, noting that birds from the herd would not enter the food.
This is the first time that the pathogen avian influenza virus has been detected in the US since 2020 and for the first time in Indiana since 2016, 11 eleven poultry farms and more than 400,000 birds have died.
The disease poses a threat to the Indiana poultry industry, which ranks third in the world in Turkish production, first in duck production, second in table eggs and laying hens, and a major producer of broiler chickens. The poultry industry employs more than 14,000 Hoosiers and is valued at $ 2.5 billion.
The people became infected and set up farms to raise chickens and chickens for meat and eggs. Many are taking steps to increase biosecurity, fearing a recurrence of the bird flu epidemic in 2015 that killed 50 million birds in 15 provinces and cost the federal government up to $ 1 billion.
Animal Health Board staff said Aian flu does not show public health quickly and no human cases of Avian Influenza have been detected in the U.S.
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