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H5N2 avian flu goes pandemic in U.S. & Canada

April 23, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

3.8 million hens killed in Iowa HARRIS, Iowa––Workers at Sunrise Farms near Harris in Osceola County, northeastern Iowa, on April 22, 2015 scrambled to kill 3.8 million laying hens to try to quell a fast-spreading pandemic of the highly pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza that started in British Columbia, Canada, in December 2014. The National Veterinary […]

Filed Under: Birds, Canada, Chickens, Disease, Ducks & geese, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry, The Americas, Turkeys, Wildlife Tagged With: avian flu, H5N1, H5N2, Merritt Clifton, Sunrise Farms

High pathogenic avian flu hits U.S. through backyard flocks

February 19, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Outbreaks throughout the Northwest BELLINGHAM, Washington––Backyard poultry have become an incubator for high pathogenic strains of avian influenza throughout the Pacific Northwest, with recent outbreaks occurring from the Fraser Valley of British Columbia to northern California, and as far east as Idaho. The Oregon Department of Agriculture and the USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Birds, Canada, Chickens, China, Ducks & geese, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry, The Americas, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: avian flu, H5N1, H5N2, H5N8, HPAI, Merritt Clifton

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