Chicken Flu Showed in Lehigh County and Gettysburg – Gettysburg Connection

Over the last two days, two bulletins have highlighted the unfold of Extremely Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI H5N1) in Pennsylvania, together with native instances.

The Pennsylvania Division of Agriculture has showed HPAI in a business poultry farm in Lehigh County, involving a flock of fifty,000 layer chickens. State and federal investigators are imposing a complete reaction plan to stop additional unfold of the virus. The affected farm and all business poultry amenities inside a 10-kilometer radius had been quarantined, with motion of poultry merchandise limited within the space.

Moreover, the Pennsylvania Recreation Fee has showed that lifeless ducks discovered at Quarry Pond at the Gettysburg School campus examined certain for HPAI. Efforts are underway to take away the carcasses as climate prerequisites permit. Scholars and citizens are instructed to steer clear of the realm round Quarry Pond.

HPAI is extremely contagious and usually deadly to home birds. Whilst the present public well being possibility could be very low and no human instances had been reported in Pennsylvania, citizens are prompt to workout warning. Correctly cooked poultry merchandise and eggs stay secure for intake.

Any person encountering a unwell or lifeless wild chook is inspired to file it to the Pennsylvania Recreation Fee at 1-833-PGC-WILD (1-833-742-9453). In case you have had touch with unwell or lifeless birds and are feeling ill, please touch your number one care doctor or the Pennsylvania Division of Well being at 877-724-3258.

Charles (Chuck) Stangor is Gettysburg Connection’s Proprietor, Writer, and Editor in Leader. I wish to listen from you. Please touch me at cstangor@gettysburgconnection.org.

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