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It's been almost a month since any reports happened in my state. According to the migration maps, my area is a dead zone for migration activity. I'm not near a body of water and don't have waterfowl on my land, so I'm getting more casual with things since it is exhausting and at some point there...

In addition to the twitter post, they also have added an announcement from the today on their news list that contains a similar statement. https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/newsroom/news/sa_by_date/sa-2022/hpai-funding "We encourage bird owners to work to ensure domestic birds do not come into...

That's a really nice map! Not too phone friendly (at least with mine) but works great from a regular computer.

Even prior to HPAI I had wondered about trying to set something like that up but it would have to be tall and with a roof, which is a non-trivial building task for me, and I'd probably have to carve out part of a hill too. I looked but never found anything pre-made that would work with my setup...

Good point about the European timeline. Hadn't thought to look at it over there even though I knew that's where it came from. Well, nuts to that if that's how it drags on over here. I don't care to guess what interesting restrictions my state might brew up over that kind of time frame if things...

I wasn't having much luck with searches. More broadly, I've found that trying to find get historic info and news articles about X in year Y is not entirely simple when X is a big thing in the news right now. The results just get flooded with things about current instances of X that have a...

I just saw NY seems to have tightened their ban on poultry stuff. It seems to only be banning "events," which I take to mean more than two people but the wording isn't the greatest. A number of other states appear to have similar bans. For those who saw stuff like this in the 2015 events (which...

Yep, that is my situation. I used to have a feeder on my balcony, which is on the same side of the house as the coop. When I stopped filling the feeder for a couple days, it backfired because the wild birds are apparently a lot more chummy with me than I expected. Every time I went out it got...

I think this is it: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27309286/#:~:text=We%20showed%20here%20that%20an,4%20days%20postinoculation%20(dpi). The full text appears to be behind a paywall but this is the abstract: "We showed here that an H5N8-subtype highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV)...

Hmmmmm 🤔 Vote against you for office? I don't think I can promise this. 😆

You might have read more into my short, sleepy post than intended. I posted that quote mostly aimed at those who, despite the articles and things posted in this thread (which I read too; I think we are on the same page), still have significant and possibly misplaced worries about going to the...

Apologies is this or similar things have already been shared by someone else and I missed it. (from https://www.agriculture.com/news/business/egg-prices-spike-as-bird-flu-outbreaks-reach-two-month-mark) We already know it is being spread over large regions by migratory birds so that part isn't...

It's perhaps also worth noting that the USGS map of cases uses the more sensible definition. https://www.usgs.gov/centers/nwhc/science/distribution-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-north-america-20212022 The categories they are using to represent the USDA data are a bit different: commercial...

I just looked this up and watched. I knew that's how the large commercial facilities were being handled, but I've also heard and read repeatedly that they won't kill birds that don't test positive. According to that video, they do kill everything, separate area/flock or not, and testing positive...

I think for some they do know about it but either don't have the time/resources to pen up all their poultry or it's just a risk they're willing to take since the birds were intended to be free range (in the grand scheme of things, it is still a very low probability event). I get the feeling in...

The table at the bottom of the page has more info too (and apparently is hard to copy/paste from now...bummer). There is a new column in it called "released." Does anyone know what "active" vs. a date means there?

That's more what I was getting at, the super-spreader environment type of thing. There's a lot of emphasis going around about cleaning footwear/clothing and cleaning surfaces and tools, and comparatively not much on improving the cleanliness/health of the environment and the wellbeing of the...

Heat and dry kill the virus. With a spray I'd be worried about contaminating the feed if it's one of those big bags with the string closure since that's not waterproof. A small zippy bag like 9-10lb ones could be cleaned with a wipe or something, but for the big ones though I would think it's...

I have wondered if the big facilities are really following the stringent biosecurity measures that were described in things like the Penn State webinar on HPAI and biosecurity. They made it sound like professional facilities like that have not just a place to change shoes, but a lot of boot...

Thank you for sharing that! An interesting read indeed. Worth note on seagulls: "Gulls are in the order Charadriiformes in the family Laridae. These birds are considered major reservoir hosts of avian IAVs [2,37], especially of H13 and H16 viruses [38]. Large-scale surveillance of gulls has...