by Mac Slavo, SHTF Plan:
The United States has reported its first H5N9 outbreak in poultry. The World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Monday that U.S. authorities also detected the more common H5N1 strain on the same farm in Merced County, California.
In a report to the Paris-based WOAH, the health officials stated that the farm had culled almost 119,000 birds since December 2nd of last year. “This is the first confirmed case of HPAI H5N9 in poultry in the United States,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in the report to the WOAH.
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Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), commonly called bird flu, has spread around the globe in recent years, leading to the forced culling of hundreds of millions of poultry and skyrocketing egg prices. It also spread to dozens of mammal species, including dairy cows in the U.S., and is allegedly responsible for the death of a human in Louisiana.
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H5N9 is much more rare than the H5N1 virus currently circulating among dairy cattle and other mammals in the U.S.
The New York Times (behind a paywall) reported that the bird flu outbreak in the U.S. has passed some worrying milestones this week, too. One of the milestones health officials have been concerned about was the reinfection of dairy cattle with the virus.
The United Kingdom has also reported a case of the H5N1 bird flu in a person in central England but added that the risk to the broader public remained “very low.” The person acquired the infection on a farm, where they had close and prolonged contact with a large number of infected birds, the UK Health Security Agency said in a statement, according to a report by Reuters.
“We have robust systems in place to detect cases early and take necessary action, as we know that spillover infections from birds to humans may occur,” UKHSA Chief Medical Adviser Susan Hopkins said.
