By Steve Olson
Special to Poultry Times
BUFFALO, Minn. — On behalf of all of Minnesota's poultry producers, processors and allied industry a sincere and huge thank you to everyone — USDA, state, academia, industry — involved in assisting us in responding to our 2015 highly-pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) crisis! As you would expect with a crisis of this magnitude the response was not flawless but all parties worked together to improve the response during the outbreak and in preparing for future outbreaks.
Since HPAI H5N2 first appeared in early 2015, appropriately, there have been several "lessons. . .