{"id":10222,"date":"2025-09-03T16:50:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10222"},"modified":"2025-09-03T16:50:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:50:34","slug":"avian-flu-found-in-north-dakota-south-dakota-turkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/09\/03\/avian-flu-found-in-north-dakota-south-dakota-turkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Avian flu found in North Dakota, South Dakota turkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/northdakotamonitor.com\/briefs\/avian-flu-found-in-north-dakota-south-dakota-turkeys\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">North Dakota Monitor<\/a> Avian flu has hit turkey farms in North Dakota and South Dakota, the first cases in commercial flocks in the United States since early July.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service on Aug. 28 confirmed an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Faulk County in northeast South Dakota. The outbreak meant 55,400 birds were killed to prevent the spread of the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the first case in a U.S. commercial flock since July 2, when the avian flu was confirmed at a game bird facility in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndda.nd.gov\/divisions\/animal-health\/diseases\/avian-influenza-north-dakota?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"North Dakota Department of Agriculture, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">North Dakota Department of Agriculture<\/a>&nbsp;said Wednesday that bird flu had been confirmed Saturday at a turkey farm in Dickey County, near the South Dakota state line.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter a quiet summer, it\u2019s not unexpected that we have another case of HPAI as birds are gathering to begin the fall migration,\u201d North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring said in a news release.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Ethan Andress, state veterinarian in North Dakota, said 60,000 birds had to be destroyed in Dickey County.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"nZndtyKKeLYQBPH\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Dakota Monitor Avian flu has hit turkey farms in North Dakota and South Dakota, the first cases in commercial flocks in the United States since early July.&nbsp; The U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service on Aug. 28 confirmed an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Faulk County in northeast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avian-influenza"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10223,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10222\/revisions\/10223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}