Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack’s opinion piece calls on producers to use USDA’s resources to enhance their biosecurity measures and for states and producers to opt into our support and herd monitoring programs designed to limit the spread of this H5N1 in dairy cattle.
The most important step we can take today to contain HPAI is biosecurity.”
Source: Agri-Pulse, June 21, 2024. Link.
Also see: AVMA House of Delegates updated on HPAI response, AVMA, June 24, 2024. Link. Speakers from the HOD’s House Advisory Panel and constituent allied veterinary organizations covered the current state of affairs and the challenges veterinarians in the poultry and dairy industries are facing, as well the efforts being taken to protect public and animal health. “Avian influenza is NOT going away.”