By Drs. Sally L. Noll
& Carol J. Cardona
Special to Poultry Times
St. PAUL, Minn. — Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in Minnesota and the Midwest brought terrible losses to commercial poultry farms in 2015 and 2016. HPAI represents a change in what avian producers had come to expect, given that spring introductions of avian influenza are generally rare. While experts continue to research how the introduction and spread of HPAI occurs, biosecurity is key to preventing or lessening the extent of possible introduction of the virus.
The foundational blocks of biosecurity are:
- isolation. . .