22.04.2015

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, in cooperation with the US Department of Agriculture is responding to a detection of H5 avian influenza in an 87,000 bird turkey flock in Chippewa county. There are now four cases in Wisconsin. The property was immediately quarantined and neighboring properties with poultry will be notified about the situation. Remaining birds will be depopulated. The H5N2 avian influenza virus was first detected in Wisconsin at a commercial chicken flock in Jefferson County on Monday, April 13, which led to the depopulation of more than 180,000 egg-laying chickens. Since then two additional flocks were detected in Barron and Juneau counties bringing the total of birds to more than 310,000 in Wisconsin.