MDAC Commissioner Andy Gipson issued the following statement.
The Mississippi Board of Animal Health (MBAH) has been notified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Veterinary Services Laboratory that poultry from a commercial broiler breeder chicken flock in Noxubee County, Mississippi has tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza. Samples from the flock were tested at the Mississippi Veterinary Research & Diagnostic Laboratory, part of the National Animal Health Laboratory Network, and confirmed at the APHIS National Veterinary Services Laboratories in Ames, Iowa.
Avian influenza does not present a food safety risk; poultry and eggs are safe to eat when handled and cooked properly. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the public health risk associated with avian influenza in birds remains low. As a reminder, the proper handling and cooking of all poultry and eggs to an internal temperature of 165 ˚F is recommended as a general food safety precaution.
SITUATION: The State Veterinarian has quarantined the affected premises, and birds on the property have been depopulated to prevent the spread of the disease. Birds from the flock have not entered the food system. The MBAH is working closely with federal animal health officials in Mississippi on a joint incident response.
The MBAH is actively working with the poultry industry to increase monitoring of flocks statewide. This finding is the third case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in commercial poultry in Mississippi since the spring of 2023. Since November 2024, HPAI has been detected in migratory waterfowl in multiple areas of Mississippi. The poultry industry was notified and put on high alert to increase biosecurity and surveillance for HPAI.
REPORTING: Hobby poultry owners are encouraged to practice good biosecurity and be aware of the signs of avian influenza and report illness and/or death in birds in the MBAH Online Reporting Form https://agnet.mdac.ms.gov/
Avian influenza in birds can cause sudden death; lack of energy or appetite; decreased egg production; soft-shelled or misshapen eggs; swelling or purple discoloration of head, eyelids, comb, hocks; nasal discharge; coughing; sneezing; incoordination; and diarrhea. A resource for backyard bird health information is online at: https://www.aphis.usda.gov/
UPDATES and INFORMATION: Updates about ongoing avian influenza activities in Mississippi, along with critical disease‐related information, will be posted online at: https://www.hpai.ms.gov/.
19 comments:
There isn't no damn Bird Flu. Quit killing the chickens !!!
Salter is melting down.
Ya’ll Run, Don’t look back, just because I tell you so!
You are damn right 312 - just like there was no damn COVID. Its all just fake liberal crap, just like those claims that they landed on the moon back a few years ago.
Nice try 4:21 We have actual evidence of the moon landing. You are trying that old Marxist Rules for Radicals playbook where you conflate moon hoaxers and flat earthers with the scamdemic. Covid was real alright. Really pathetic. He have had worse flu seasons before and since Covid.
So far Trump's border wall has kept it out of Mexico.
And the earth really is flat.
Nice try, 4:26. You've apparently never watched the 1977 movie, "Capricorn One."
Nice try yourself 4:26.
Try telling your "Covid was just flu" bullshit to three of my friends and neighbors whose spouses died from Covid. My daughter-in-law was a cardiac ICU nurse in Texas. They had to care for Covid patients in her ICU after the regular medical and surgical ICU's were over-run with patients dying from Covid induced lung failure.
I have never known of anyone dying from the flu.
Although the Covid virus has morphed and is now much less lethal, the initial strain was scary and deadly.
Instead of saying "birds on the property have been depopulated", why can't whoever wrote this piece say "birds on the property have been killed"? This "do-good" language is getting old in a hurry.
“Migratory waterfowl” meaning the annoying invasive species known as Canadian Geese. Why not catch and test them then “depopulate” them if they are carriers?
Let’s all remain calm. Our Government is all over this potentially catastrophic event. Our Government is staffed by crack shots, the best in the business. And you can know they are the best in their field, because if they were not, Our Government never would’ve hired them.
Put Bennie on the bird flu soon as he straightens out USPS…
Is anyone getting to eat the depopulated birds?
8:58 While Covid was real, the response was intentionally flawed. When was the last time you got a cold or the flu and the doctor told you to go home, but come back if you started turning blue and couldn't breathe?
The sickness was real, but the response was predicated on what doctors were "allowed" to do for it. There were (and are) therapeutics available to treat Covid to a nearly 100% survival rate, but our government-related overlords made it heresy to talk about / use them. There is now absolute, uncontrovertible evidence that the therapeutics worked and the governmental medical authorities gaslit everyone into ignoring them. So, that's the reason SO many people are now distrustful of government medical agencies and the medical community as a whole. Turns out, people don't like being lied to and gaslit.
8:58 We’ll a child died from the flu a short while back as news reported no age was given; just a minor & don’t remember what state. (2) males cousins died of Covid with one healthy & one with underlying conditions. It was te 1st bad strained that killed some friends too.
I love KF’s blog. It’s a hoot reading these responses. I have no doubt that a similar blog in LA reads exactly the same way, except it would be idiots on the left versus idiots on the right.
I think FOX reads them to us on many of their many illuminating “news” shows. I wish they’d broadcast KF’s.
"...scamdemic. Covid was real alright. Really pathetic. He have had worse flu seasons before and since Covid."
Some folks are just doomed to fail. If you're a troll you're a piss-poor one and if you aren't you're an idiot. Either way, common sense isn't among your skills and success will continue to allude you, but for God's sake at least try to have SOME pride.
GEESE. These flying jerks are the reason. Maybe someone will eventually figure the crap out.
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