Highly Lethal Bird Flu Spreading Across U.S.

Is the next epidemic on its way? Are they trying to shut down supply chains? Highly lethal bird flu detected is spreading across the US from Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio to New York

Is the next pandemic on its way? Highly pathogenic bird flu is spreading across the US. If it’s not the next epidemic, it will not help inflation and meat prices will skyrocket in a few weeks… Now the question is, are they shutting down supply chains?

Bird flu found at 4th Indiana turkey farm

Avian influenza has been detected in a fourth commercial poultry flock in southern Indiana, state officials said Saturday.

Another possible case was found about 5 miles (8 kilometers) away in Greene County earlier in the week. Two previous cases were found in adjacent Dubois County.

Officials have begun euthanizing the 15,200 birds at the latest farm to prevent the spread of the disease.

A 6.2-mile circle has been established around the latest farm in Greene County. Thirteen commercial poultry flocks within the new control area are under quarantine and will be tested regularly.

The turkey infections are the first confirmation of highly pathogenic bird flu in commercial poultry in the U.S. since 2020.

Indiana ranks third nationally in turkey production.

The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a non-commercial backyard flock (non-poultry) in Suffolk County, New York.

State officials quarantined the affected premises, and birds on the properties will be depopulated to prevent the spread of the disease. Birds from the flock will not enter the food system.

The recent HPAI detections in birds do not present an immediate public health concern. No human cases of these avian influenza viruses have been detected in the United States.

U.S. detects highly lethal bird flu in Tyson Foods chickens

A flock of about 240,000 chickens owned by Tyson Foods Inc (TSN.N) in Kentucky tested positive for a highly lethal form of bird flu, government officials and the company said on Monday, widening an outbreak that threatens the U.S. poultry industry.

Infections in the chickens being raised for meat triggered more restrictions on U.S. exports, with China blocking poultry products from Kentucky. Last week, buyers like China and Korea limited poultry purchases from Indiana due to an outbreak at a commercial turkey farm there. read more

The broiler chickens in Fulton County, Kentucky, located near the border with Tennessee, were infected with the same H5N1 strain of highly pathogenic avian flu as the turkeys in Indiana, Kentucky officials said.

They said it is Kentucky’s first outbreak of the highly lethal bird flu, which killed more than 50 million U.S. chickens and turkeys in 2015.

Birds from the infected flock will be culled and will not enter the food system, state officials said.