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Take biosecurity seriously
USDA Chief Veterinarian Dr. Jack Shere says recent highly pathogenic avian influenza mutated from low path flu in wild birds.
Dr. Shere tells Brownfield Ag News the threat of avian flu is heightened during migration, but more attention to biosecurity since the last major outbreak helps prevent some cases.
“There are a bunch of new plans, people have done a better job of protecting themselves,” Shere told Brownfield Ag News Wednesday, “but those introductions can come and we have to find the low path and make sure that we’re watching those flocks very closely to make sure there isn’t a mutation that could go to high path.”
In some low path cases, says Shere, producers have chosen to de-populate as a precaution but others, are recovering.
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