New cases of avian influenza continue to strike South Dakota. Dr. Mendel Miller with the South Dakota Animal Industry Board tells Brownfield there have been ten new cases in the past week, bringing the state’s total number of affected farms to 32, and only one is a backyard flock. “A mix, mostly turkeys but a mixture.”
Mendel says the state and USDA response teams have been outstanding, and he says the producers are doing everything they can to prevent the illness but wonder where it will strike next.
