Legislator: State officials monitoring Avian flu outbreak now contained to Indiana

Indiana Department of Environmental Management Commissioner Carol Comer said the disposal of the hundreds of thousands of birds is a logistical challenge, “The infected birds are being composted on the farm”.

The number of birds set to killed because of a bird flu outbreak growing to more than 400,000.

Officials hope the current outbreak has been contained and that there’s no wider impact. National, state and local officials are continuing work on containment and depopulation for the… She told HAT that non-infected birds are being placed in landfills, “Birds that were not infected, but were depopulated as a precaution, can be moved off the farm and be placed in landfills”. No new cases of infection have been discovered in the past 24 hours.

The avian influenza virus in IN is the H7N8 strain. 2016, photo, a worker sprays a vehicle as part of the decontamination process before the vehicle could leave a farm in Dubois, Ind. Frigid temperatures are hampering efforts to euthanize turkeys at several southwestern in farms where a strain of bird flu was found last week, freezing the hoses used to spread a foam that suffocates the affected flocks, a spokeswoman for a state agency said Monday, Jan 18. APHIS noted that low-pathogenic H7 viruses, though, have been known to mutate into highly pathogenic strains, which have the potential to spread quickly and cause many deaths in domestic poultry. In the meantime, what do we need to know? All affected barns will then undergo a thorough cleaning and disinfection before farmers can restock.

US negotiators have worked with trading partners in the past year to focus restrictions on infected counties or states, instead of blocking shipments from the entire country, said Toby Moore, spokesman for the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council.

“In the poultry business, there’s a positive determination that this new strain not have any chance at proving what it might be able to do”, said Keith Williams, a spokesman for the National Turkey Federation, a trade group.