Articles Tagged with ''HPAI''

America’s national bird has not been immune to a recent string of highly pathogenic avian influenza infections, according to Agriculture Department data tracking the outbreak.

Representatives of the U.S. poultry industry descended in Havana last week to implore the Cuban government to loosen bans on U.S. chicken after outbreaks of bird flu in major producing states.

Poultry and egg producers are closely watching the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza, which has already hit more states than the 2014-2015 outbreak and infected close to half the number of birds as it did seven years ago.

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is releasing a report today focusing on potential mitigation measures.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza has now spread to 14 states and more than 7.6 million birds, with the Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s announcement that a commercial layer flock in Wisconsin had been infected.

A strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected at a commercial turkey operation near the Indiana-Kentucky border.

Vietnam confirmed an outbreak of the H5N8 avian flu virus in its northern province of Quang Ninh.