An earlier reported case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in Weakley County, Tennessee, involved a flock of 268,800 commercial broilers.
Tennessee State Veterinarian Samantha Beaty on January 20 reported that HPAI had been confirmed in a commercial broiler flock in Weakley County, but at the time did not disclose the size of the affected flock.
Three days later, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) revealed the flock size. This is the largest flock to have been lost to HPAI so far in 2023.
With the addition of this number, Tennessee has now lost 352,300 commercial birds in the 2022-23 HPAI outbreak. Nationwide, Tennessee ranks 15th for the most commercial birds to die in the outbreak.
This is Tennessee’s fourth commercial poultry flock to be affected since the first case was confirmed in November 2022. Three of the four cases were in Weakley County, while the other was in Bledsoe County.
One more case confirmed in British Columbia
A new case of HPAI was confirmed in a commercial poultry flock in Chilliwack, British Columbia, on January 22, reported the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).
Information concerning the size of the flock or the type of birds in the flock was not disclosed.
This is the fifth case of HPAI in Chilliwack so far in 2023, and the 22nd for the 2022-23 outbreak. British Columbia has had 78 cases since the beginning of the outbreak, making it the province most affected by the virus.
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.
