News
Wisconsin back to “unaffected” status for dairy HPAI, but new poultry losses
Wisconsin’s only dairy herd with highly-pathogenic avian influenza has been found disease-free.
Ag Secretary Randy Romanski says Wisconsin has been returned to gold or unaffected status. “The affected farm in Wisconsin, the affected dairy farm in Wisconsin has cleared all protocols. Quaranteens have been lifted, so that is a good step.”
While the state’s dairy herds are in good health, Romanski says the H5N1 virus did come back to a couple of Wisconsin poultry flocks last week. “A large commercial flock in Jefferson County, one backyard flock in Dane County that are either depopulated in the case of Dane County, or close to being depopulated in the case of Jefferson County case.”
Fifty-five birds were depopulated at the Dane County site. The Jefferson County commercial flock is losing 1.21 million laying hens to avian influenza. These are the first two Wisconsin cases since December 8th of last year.
Add Comment