The US Division of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Well being Inspection Service (APHIS) confirmed H5N1 avian influenza in three extra dairy herds, two in Colorado and one in Iowa, elevating its variety of affected herds to 129 in 12 states.
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In associated developments, Iowa yesterday turned the most recent state to announce new testing necessities for dairy cattle collaborating in state exhibitions and festivals. The order goes into impact on July 1.In an replace saying the testing requirement, the state’s agriculture secretary Mike Naig reiterated a request for USDA assist for affected farms and thanked Iowa farmers for his or her cooperation with testing and analysis efforts. Officers stated the USDA has licensed extra epidemiological strike groups to assist with investigations on affected poultry and dairy farms. Extra detections in cats, different mammals, wild birdsAPHIS right now added reviews of 9 extra H5N1 detections in mammals throughout 4 states, of which 5 had been home cats. The contaminated cats had been from Minnesota (Kandiyohi County) and Texas (Hartley County). Different detections concerned raccoons from Michigan and New Mexico, a striped skunk for New Mexico, and a crimson fox from Minnesota.The group additionally added eight extra detections in wild birds, together with 5 bald eagles from Iowa, New Jersey, and Virginia and three agency-harvested birds from New Mexico.