{"id":23028,"date":"2025-01-08T07:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T12:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=23028"},"modified":"2025-01-08T07:11:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T12:11:36","slug":"boah-responds-to-first-avian-flu-event-in-indiana-in-nearly-a-year-in-jay-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/boah-responds-to-first-avian-flu-event-in-indiana-in-nearly-a-year-in-jay-county\/","title":{"rendered":"BOAH Responds to First Avian Flu Event in Indiana in Nearly a Year, in Jay County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Story courtesy of Eric Pfeiffer, Hoosier Ag Today<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.science.org\/do\/10.1126\/science.aad7492\/full\/sn-turkeys-1644949916577.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:492px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoosieragtoday.com\/author\/ericpfeiffer\/\"><\/a>\u201cHighly pathogenic avian influenza is back in Indiana,\u201d says Denise Derrer Spears, Public Information Director with the Indiana State Board of Animal Health. \u201cFriday afternoon, we had test results that came back that we found the virus in a commercial turkey flock in Jay County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since that discovery late Friday, the flock of over 20,000 turkeys has been depopulated. A 10-kilometer control area and a 20-kilometer surveillance zone that includes portions of Jay and Adams Counties have been established around the affected farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will be requiring permits for any poultry or poultry product movements in or out of that area. There are companies up there that are producing eggs that need to ship to make it to grocery stores. Before they can move, there has to be a negative test that happens for the flock to make sure that they won\u2019t be moving any virus. And so, we\u2019ve got testing that\u2019s happening on a daily basis for the farms up there because a lot of those operations, they\u2019ve got daily shipments, and they have to keep in business.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BOAH is reaching out to other flock owners in that area to offer testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is important to note that avian influenza does NOT present a food safety risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hobby poultry owners are encouraged to be aware of the signs of avian influenza and report illness or death to the USDA Healthy Birds Hotline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMain things to look for are sudden death without clinical signs, lack of appetite or energy in the birds, decreased egg production, soft or misshapen eggs, swelling or purple discoloration of the head, eyelids, comb, hocks, and nasal discharge, including coughing and sneezing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number to the Healthy Birds Hotline is&nbsp;<strong>866-536-7593.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story courtesy of Eric Pfeiffer, Hoosier Ag Today \u201cHighly pathogenic avian influenza is back in Indiana,\u201d says Denise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[19,15],"class_list":["post-23028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ag","tag-ag","tag-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23030,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23028\/revisions\/23030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}