17.06.2015

Nebraska Department of Agriculture (NDA) Director Greg Ibach today announced the release of a quarantine on a Knox County egg laying farm, after weeks of testing for highly pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza (HPAI) did not confirm an earlier presumptive positive test for the disease.
NDA issued the quarantine of the Knox County farm on May 27th after a preliminary test indicated the probable presence of HPAI. Subsequent testing did not confirm the presence of the disease, and the 3 million bird flock has been tested every day over the past three weeks. All tests have come back negative for HPAI. 
The quarantine release of the farm also means NDA is releasing from quarantine the 27 additional Knox County locations that were quarantined because they were within 6.2 miles of the presumptive positive flock.