The number of commercial poultry operations affected by highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) continues to grow, with two new cases confirmed.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) reported that on December 6, the presence of HPAI was confirmed in a commercial meat turkey operation in Cherokee County and another commercial meat turkey operation in Sac County.
The Cherokee County flock was the larger of the two, with 105,000 turkeys involved. The Sac County flock included 40,000 turkeys.
APHIS also offered additional information on a previously announced case of HPAI in a Buena Vista County turkey flock that was confirmed on December 5. Since that case was announced by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, APHIS has released flock size information. That flock involved 40,700 turkeys.
These are the second cases of HPAI in commercial flocks in both Cherokee and Sac counties. The other Cherokee County case was confirmed on March 31 and the Sac County case was confirmed on April 2.
Prior to the confirmation of the three most recent cases, Iowa was already the state that had lost the most birds to HPAI in 2022. With the addition of the cases in the counties of Buena Vista, Cherokee and Sac, Iowa’s total count for HPAI-related bird losses this year stands at 15,682,300.
To learn more about HPAI cases in commercial poultry flocks in the United States and Canada, see an interactive map on WATTPoultry.com.
Read our ongoing coverage of the global avian influenza outbreak.
