Georgia Department of Agriculture has lifted its suspension on various poultry sales. It was imposed after three cases of ...
The country’s poor public health response to the outbreak is rooted in the inability to bring in dairy farmers as partners.
The state Department of Agriculture has lifted a suspension of poultry activities in Georgia following the successful ...
The Georgia Department of Agriculture lifted its suspension on poultry sales after 24 days, following successful testing and surveillance that detected no additional avian flu cases. The ...
Sales and markets with live poultry can resume in Georgia after state officials lifted restrictions that had been in place since a pair of bird flu detections last month.
ATLANTA — For the first time since the 2022 countrywide outbreak, bird flu hit a poultry producer in Georgia ... detected a case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza at a commercial poultry ...
On Monday, the Georgia Agriculture Commissioner announced that all poultry activities involving live birds may resume.
Avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, is taking a toll on migrating sandhill cranes and other waterfowl as the deadly ...
Since 2021, experts have seen bird flu — also called H5N1 influenza or highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) — spreading "fairly quickly" across the wild and domestic bird populations and, now, ...
There are two types of H5N1: Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. Georgia's cases were the latter. It causes severe disease and high mortality in infected poultry.