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On April 9th, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the detection of a highly pathogenic Avian influenza (H7N3) in a commercial turkey flock in Chesterfield County, South Carolina. No human cases have been detected, and there is no immediate public […]
Read MoreYesterday the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed a second case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in a commercial flock in Lincoln County, Tennessee. This is the same North American wild bird origin H7N9 strain that was previously confirmed […]
Read MoreOn March 5th the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed the detection of Highly Pathogenic H7 Avian Influenza in a commercial chicken breeder flock in Lincoln County, Tennessee, within the Mississippi flyway. Please see the full announcement from the […]
Read MoreUpdate 2: January 12, 2017 Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses continue to be detected around the world. On January 9, USDA announced the detection of an HPAI H5 in Montana in a mallard duck that was part of routine […]
Read MoreForeign Animal Diseases: Health Emergencies and Continuity Crushers Presentations Foreign Animal Diseases (FADs) represent a threat to our mission of connecting the public to the natural world through our animals. Whether an FAD directly causes disease in the collection, or […]
Read MoreAs you may be aware, last Friday USDA confirmed a case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N2 in a wild Mallard duck in Alaska. The full announcement from the USDA can be found here. It’s not terribly surprising that […]
Read MoreUPDATE : On January 10th, 2016, a commercial turkey facility in Southern Indiana observed reduced water and feed consumption in the flock. Over the course of the next 2 days the flock experienced increasing mortality rates, greatly over baseline. Samples […]
Read MoreAs of December 4th 2015 the United States Department of Agriculture has sampled over 25,000 birds as part of their surveillance efforts. Thus far only two samples have tested positive for HPAI, and then only at a molecular level with […]
Read MoreIn October 2015 USDA APHIS partnered with the ZAHP Fusion Center to hold an internet based tabletop exercise designed to test the updated Concept of Operations Plan for responding to HPAI at a zoological facility. The exercise brought representatives from […]
Read MoreThank you to everyone that was able to participate in the July 29th ZAHP Chat on HPAI. As promised the digest of that call is included below for anyone that was unable to listen in live or would like to review […]
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