The state animal health board website said one of the farms had 12,000 turkeys and another 23,500.
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The H7N8 virus was discovered on 10 turkey farms in Dubois County, which is Indiana’s top poultry-producing county, last week.
Animal health officials investigating a bird flu outbreak in southwest in have ordered 156,000 chickens at one of 10 affected commercial poultry farms to be euthanized, raising the total number of birds to be killed above 400,000. “Together, we are also working to stop further spread of the LPAI virus, and will continue aggressive testing on additional premises within the expanded control area to ensure any additional cases of either HPAI or LPAI are identified and controlled quickly”.
At least ten commercial turkey farms in the Dubois County area have now tested positive for avian flu.
“Birds from the affected flock have not and will not enter the food system”, Ted Seger, president of Farbest Farms Inc., said. “These birds are going to be depopulated as part of the requirement under worldwide trade agreements. and so that is kind of the protocol for this disease so it doesn’t move any farther”.
Derrer says workers are moving as fast as possible to kill the birds to prevent the virus from spreading.
A strain of low-pathogenic AI, low-pathogenic H7N8, was found and confirmed in eight of nine turkey flocks in southern in found to be infected with the disease.
No additional cases have been reported since Saturday.
“Hopefully as we respond quickly to this virus we can get it contained and hopefully not see an extensive outbreak like we did a year ago”, said T.J. Myers, a veterinary services administrator with the USDA.
A new strain of avian influenza, H7N8, has been detected in a turkey farm in IN state, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday. Previous year’s outbreak, which officially ended in June, cost the poultry industry more than $3.3 billion. On Monday he said the bird flu outbreak has created quite a buzz among local producers and agribusiness owners.
“We realize that if it’s indeed of wild bird origin, they know no boundaries so we want to make sure that everyone is properly informed”, Marsh told reporters. As a result, the United States has an excellent AI surveillance program, but is it better equipped to deal with the outbreak this time around?
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US negotiators have worked with trading partners in the past year to focus restrictions on infected counties or states, instead of blocking shipments from the entire country, said Toby Moore, spokesman for the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council.
