GDA Confirms Latest Case of Bird Flu and USDA Rebuilds Vaccine Stockpile
From the Ag Information Network, this is your Agribusiness Update.**The Georgia Department of Agriculture and USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed a positive case of bird flu in a small, backyard flock of 13 chickens and ducks in Clayton County.
www.morningagclips.com reports this is the third HPAI detection in a backyard flock and fourth overall in Georgia since the nationwide outbreak began three years ago.
Poultry owners are encouraged to closely watch their birds and report any sick or dead birds to the Avian Influenza Hotline … at 770-766-6850.
www.morningagclips.com/hpai-confirmed-in-small-backyard-flock-in-ga/
**The USDA will begin rebuilding its bird flu vaccine stockpile to make it match the current strain of the virus running through commercial flocks and wild birds.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the outbreak has killed over 130 million birds since 2022, affecting commercial, backyard, and wild birds in all 50 states.
Bird flu is also affecting U.S. dairy cattle herds and has infected almost 70 people.
**The Public Land Council has condemned the Biden administration’s irresponsible use of the Antiquities Act of 1906 to create two brand-new national monuments in California.
PLC Executive Director, Kaitlynn Glover says with just days left in the Biden administration, the record is clear that eleventh hour monument designations jeopardize rangeland health, threaten local economic stability, and unnecessarily make these areas political pawns during a transition period.