06.06.2015

The Minnesota Board of Animal Health today announced one presumptive positive flock. The following Minnesota county is affected:
Kandiyohi – 40th detection (turkeys, 44,000)
Current situation
Total number of affected farms – 108
Total number of counties – 23
Minnesota and Iowa are the hardest hit states.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says Midwest chicken and turkey producers have lost nearly 47 million birds on 217 farms since the region’s first case of H5N2 avian influenza was confirmed on a Minnesota turkey farm in early March.