Fujian H5N2 Spread In Minnesota – Steele County
Recombinomics.com
April 29, 2015
The above April 26 APHIS list adds 3 farm outbreaks confirmed on April 27 (see H5N2 map).
However, the explosion of cases was in chicken farms in Iowa. Two large layer farms in Sioux County (3.7 million and 1.7 million were announced in a press release and associated press confernce, as well as two layer farms (240,000 and 98,000) in O’Brien County. In addition, there was a pullet farm (250,000) in Osceola County, but only the Sioux Country farm with 1.7 million layers is on the above list. The two large farms in Sioux County appear to have impacted Michael’s Food, an acquisition by Post Holdings, who announced the H5N2 infection of supplier Iowa farms with 5.5 million layers.
Similarly, a third Barron County farm in Wisconsin (108,000 turkeys) was announced in a Department of Agriculture TCP press release and Hong Kong banned poultry from Steele County in Minnesota, increasing the number of affected counties in Minnesota to 19. The location of this county in southeastern Minnesota suggests more outbreaks will be reported in Minnesota as wild birds continue to migrate to the north.
In addition, APHIS announced the detection of H5N2 in dead wild birds (duck and goose) in McKracken County, Kentucky. Although collection dates were not announce, the location is near the snow geese confirmations in St Charles County Missori, which were collected on March 5, urther supporting the wild bird origin of March outbreaks in Missouri, Arkansas, and Kansas.
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