PARIS, Jan 27 – America has reported its first outbreak of H5N9 fowl flu in poultry on a duck farm in California, the World Group for Animal Well being (WOAH) stated on Monday.
U.S. authorities additionally detected the extra widespread H5N1 pressure on the identical farm in Merced County, California, they stated in a report back to Paris-based WOAH, including that the virtually 119,000 birds on the farm had been killed by Dec. 2.
Extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), generally referred to as fowl flu, has unfold across the globe in recent times, resulting in the culling of tons of of tens of millions of poultry.
It additionally unfold to dozens of mammal species, together with dairy cows within the U.S. and killed an individual in Louisiana.
The pressure that has precipitated most injury in recent times has been H5N1. H5N9 is rarer.
“This is the first confirmed case of HPAI H5N9 in poultry in the United States,” the U.S. Division of Agriculture stated within the report back to the WOAH.
“The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), in conjunction with State Animal Health and Wildlife Officials, are conducting comprehensive epidemiological investigations and enhanced surveillance in response to the HPAI related events,” it added.
