The Avian influenza summer break is not only over, it has been smashed. In the past 30 days, the virus has spread to 106 commercial flocks in 23 states. And California is the latest to report outbreaks —in two broiler operations in Stanislaus County and an egg-laying business in Sonoma
Continue Reading The avian flu virus is rapidly spreading through commercial flocks in the U.S.
The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services’ (APHIS) reports on achievements for 2022, its 50th anniversary year. It was a year marked by the twin challenges of the COVID-19 global pandemic and the largest animal health outbreak in this country’s history – the ongoing Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI)
Continue Reading 2022 Impact Report released by APHIS
Avian flu has burned through 60 million domestic birds in at least 47 states, egg prices have hit the stratosphere, and more troubling, the virus is mutating to infect mammals including three Montana grizzly bears.
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has responded to these dark events by
Continue Reading APHIS is preparing Environmental Impact Statement on worsening avian flu outbreaks
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is proposing to amend animal disease traceability regulations and require electronic identification for the interstate movement of certain cattle and bison.
The change will permit official USDA tags as those that are both visually and electronically readable.
APHIS is also proposing to
Continue Reading APHIS welcomes comments on the new animal disease traceability scheme
The United States is now all but certain to beat its 2015 record of losing 50 million birds to highly pathogenic avian flu outbreaks. That became apparent during just two days late this month when seven states reported new bird flu outbreaks, raising the tally to 47.7 million birds that
Continue Reading Poultry losses for the year from bird flu near record; the threat to humans isn’t zero
Commercial poultry flocks in the United States have mostly escaped highly pathogenic avian influenza during the past month.
And a world snapshot for the period from May 19 through June 8 by the World Animal Health Information System of the World Organisation for Animal Health also shows Commercial poultry flocks
Continue Reading Bird flu eases in commercial poultry, but APHIS fears it could return in fall
Forty million birds have died from avian flu since February. USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) confirmed the detection of bird flu in 372 commercial and backyard flocks in 36 states.
But the end might be in sight.
In 2015, the last case of highly pathogenic avian influenza
Continue Reading After 40 million dead birds, hot weather may be killing off the bird flu virus
The highly pathogenic avian flu is costing the United States so much that Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack is kept on the ready to pour more money into the fight.
The Secretary is authorized to tap the cash at the Commodity Credit Corporation to fund USDA’s avian flu flight, which
Continue Reading Avian flu in 35 states requires a costly response
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced Friday that its avocado inspection program in Michoacan, Mexico, has restarted and avocado exports to the United States have resumed following a threat against one of the U.S. inspector.
“The safety of USDA employees simply doing their
Continue Reading U.S. again allows import of Mexican avocados following threat against U.S. inspector
The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s job of keeping African Swine Fever out of the United States is not helped by stepped up and all too common meat smuggling.
Whether commingled in those shipping containers stacked up at U.S. ports or moved across a southern border run by
Continue Reading Meat smugglers are out to breach U.S. borders, endangering pork industry
