In H5N1 developments, the US Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) added three more confirmations, all from Colorado, to its list of H5N1 outbreaks in dairy farms. The nation’s total is now 161 outbreaks across 13 states.
APHIS also reported one more H5N1 detection in poultry, which involves a backyard flock of 30 birds in Idaho’s Twin Falls County. It also reported 21 more detections in wild birds, several of which were agency-harvested birds in Sioux County, Iowa, where the virus has been detected in dairy herds. Other detections involved waterfowl and raptors found dead in other states, including California, Florida, and New York.
Meanwhile, APHIS reported H5N1 in samples from 11 more mammals, mostly house mice in New Mexico’s Roosevelt County. They also included a red fox in New York’s Tomkins County and a raccoon in Iowa’s Sioux County.