The World Organization for Animal Health (Wah) said Monday that the first outbreak of a rare bird flu in poultry has been revealed.
Authorities said that with the discovery of H5N9 Bird Flu in Poultry, Merced County, along with detecting more common H5N1 tensions on the same form in Merced County, California, and that about 119,000 birds were killed in the form in early December. Were
“This is the first certified case of HPAI H5n9 in the poultry in the United States,” the US Department of Agriculture told Wah.
He added, “USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), in conjunction with state animal health and wildlife officials, in response to HPAI -related events Increasing the investigation and monitoring of diseases. “
Extremely pathogenic bird flu (HPAI) is a cause for increasing concern for pandemic diseases. The US National Library of Medicine Lands H5N9 as a sub -type Avenue Influenza virus.
“Even if this novel H5N9 virus will cause human infection from its avenue host and all of the pandemic diseases will be type, it is not yet known.” It notes on its website. “So it is important to evaluate the risk of the appearance of a virus with a potential transmittability in public health.”
Bird flu has spread worldwide in recent years, which has eliminated hundreds of millions of poultry. It also spread to dozens of species, including dairy cows in the United States, and killed a man earlier this year in Louisiana.
The H5N1 Avenue Flu, with the US Department of Agriculture, has been reported in the spread of US cattle flocks and poultry stocks that more than 13,000,000 birds have been affected by the flu in all 50 states in the last 30 days. The H5N1 bird flu has affected 136 meters birds since the outbreak in 2022.
This has led to an increase in egg prices. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics says that in September 2023, the average price of a dozen grade A eggs was just more than $ 2. Now after more than a year, statistics show that the price has doubled in December 2024 to $ 4.16.
Last week, Long Island, New York, was reported to spread the Avenue Flow in the Duck Form, in which federal officials ordered the destroying the entire 100,000 flock of operation. The form was going on since the 1640s.
The spread of birds flu is also increasing in the dairy flock, which affected more than 900 flocks all over the United States and affected 67 people. This increase does not yet suggest that human pandemic disease is inevitable, but authorities are worried about bird flu in domestic cats.
According to In a study last year, the educational journal was published in emerging microbes and infections, with Kate H5N1 genocoms that could suggest “potential viruses”. She found cats Can make “Work as a mixture of vessels for the restoration of the influenza virus of the Avian and the stars,” as well as the “bridge” to affect other species.
Saying American Centers (CDC) for Disease Control “While the current health risk is low, the CDC is watching the situation carefully and working with the states to monitor people affected by the animal exposure.”
