February 4, 2021
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) leadership and poultry experts hosted a virtual webinar on February 2 to discuss the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in Europe and East Asia. The agency …
January 7, 2021
HPAI is spreading across Europe, Japan, South Korea, and China at an alarming rate and affecting large numbers of poultry operations. South Korea has culled more than 10 million birds to bring the infection under …
November 19, 2020
USDA confirmed on November 7 the presence of H5 low pathogenicity avian influenza (LPAI) in a backyard duck layer flock in Webster County, MO. Control measures and surveillance have been put in place, and the World …
June 11, 2020
After more than two years of work by USDA and the California Department of Food and Agriculture, the quarantine in Southern California due to VirulentNewcastle Disease (vND) has been lifted. Even with extensive testing taking …
January 23, 2020
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) rapidly returned to Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia shortly after Poland’s first report of the disease in several flocks at the end of December. Slovakia reported a case in a backyard …
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