The Wayne County case involves a backyard poultry flock, the press release said. That case was confirmed after an investigation by the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Michigan State University Veterinary Diagnostic Library.
For the first time, birds in a Wayne County backyard flock have been sickened by the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus, MDARD reported.
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What Michigan is doing to limit the spread of avian influenzaBackyard chicken enthusiasts are keeping an eye on alerts from the state’s health and agricultural departments after a person died in Louisiana from highly pathogenic avian influenza.
The Free Press interviewed Dr. Kimberly Dodd, the dean of the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine, about efforts to tame the H5N1 bird flu outbreak.
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Shelling out: Egg prices rise nearly 37 percentThe Consumer Price Index shows egg prices are up 36.8% from this time last year. The average price of a dozen Grade A large eggs was $4.15 in December, an almost $2 increase from the $2.51 per dozen in December 2023, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
An infectious disease expert says the relatively mild cases of avian influenza detected so far among dairy workers don’t warrant making a vaccine available to them, even as they work to contain and prevent spread of the contagious virus among herds.
The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza in the eastern part of the state. A backyard flock in Oakland County has tested positive for the virus,
Though the avian flu is — for now — affecting flocks mostly in California and the Midwest, the diminished supplies are hitting grocers in Massachusetts.
"The Chinese poultry lineage may have experienced more vaccine-driven selection compared to other lineages," the researchers wrote.
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"This is a serious threat to Georgia's number one industry and the livelihoods of thousands of Georgians who make their living in our state's poultry industry," state Agriculture
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more than 133 million poultry countrywide have been impacted by avian influenza, 900-plus dairy herds and 66 people, two of whom live in Michigan. “The cases that we had were very mild,” said ...
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Bird Flu in Michigan: One man being tested after exposure to avian fluWATERFORD, Mich. (FOX 2) - One man is being tested after being exposed to Bird Flu from infected chickens in Waterford. A case of highly pathogenic avian influenza was confirmed on Thursday, and was detected in a backyard flock.It is the second case of HPAI in Oakland County since the virus was first detected in Michigan back in 2022.
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