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APHIS monitoring global avian flu threats
Sep 29, 2017, 09:14 AM
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The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) remains vigilant in monitoring global disease threats to poultry.
APHIS chief veterinary officer Dr. Jack Shere says avian influenza outbreaks are occurring on multiple continents.
“Some of the H types, H7’s and H5’s, are still circulating in Europe, Asia, and northern Africa.”
The H5N2 virus was responsible for the depopulation of 50 million birds across the Midwest in 2015, and resulted in economic losses close to $1 billion dollars.
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