Minnesota has reported its first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a commercial poultry flock since July.
The Minnesota Board of Animal Health revealed that the presence of HPAI was confirmed in a commercial meat turkey flock in Meeker County on November 25. There were 29,860 turkeys in the flock, which has been under quarantine since November 22.
This marks the 19th commercial flock in the state to be affected by HPAI in 2024, but the first since July 9, when two commercial breeding hen flocks and one breeding tom flock were struck by the virus.
This also marks the first time HPAI was confirmed in a U.S. commercial poultry flock in the Mississippi Flyway since July. After a nearly two-month absence from U.S. poultry flocks, the virus was confirmed on September 18 in a California turkey flock. Until now, all U.S. commercial poultry flocks struck by HPAI this fall have been in the Pacific Flyway.
However, in Canada, HPAI has been detected this fall in commercial poultry flocks in all flyways except the Mississippi. Most of the instances of HPAI in Canada have been in British Columbia, in the Pacific Flyway; Saskatchewan, in the Central Flyway; Alberta, which is mostly in the Central Flyway but stretches into the Pacific Flyway; and Quebec, in the Atlantic Flyway.
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To learn more about HPAI cases in commercial poultry flocks in the United States, Mexico and Canada, see an interactive map on WATTPoultry.com.
