The first case of avian influenza since last spring was detected in Dane County yesterday according to the assistant Wisconsin State Veterinarian, which could effect the US economy.
Darlene Konkle, the assistant Wisconsin State Veterinarian confirmed that highly contagious avian influenza, otherwise known as bird flu, was found in a 20,000-bird flock. Bird flu primarily affects chickens and turkeys.
Bird flu is a respiratory illness that can be identified by discharge from the nasal or eyes, sneezing, refusal to eat or drink and often ends in sudden death. The illness is primarily spread through wild geese and ducks.
When a flock of birds is hit, preventative measures must be taken by killing the whole flock as well as quarantining the area …show more content…
“The specter of an avian flu resurgence in the fall has proven confounding to the industry, making it hard to predict price changes,” said Russell Whitman, a turkey-market analysis, in a report produced with the Wisconsin Public Radio.
American consumers have experience the bird flu primarily through higher egg prices, and between July 2014 and July 2015 egg prices went up as much as 25% according to the Consumer Price Index (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
The epidemic hit egg production and turkey meat the hardest but did not have much affect on the price of chicken meat, according to David Maloni, president and chief commodity strategist of the American Restaurant Association in a report with CNBC.
Wisconsin’s poultry industry does not just include the US market. Because of the previous outbreak, many foreign countries halted the import of the state’s poultry according to a report done by Wisconsin Public Radio. These bans over the first half of 2015 cost a total of $390 million, which resulted in a 14-percetn drop in overall value according to the USA Poultry and Egg export
Darlene Konkle, the assistant Wisconsin State Veterinarian confirmed that highly contagious avian influenza, otherwise known as bird flu, was found in a 20,000-bird flock. Bird flu primarily affects chickens and turkeys.
Bird flu is a respiratory illness that can be identified by discharge from the nasal or eyes, sneezing, refusal to eat or drink and often ends in sudden death. The illness is primarily spread through wild geese and ducks.
When a flock of birds is hit, preventative measures must be taken by killing the whole flock as well as quarantining the area …show more content…
“The specter of an avian flu resurgence in the fall has proven confounding to the industry, making it hard to predict price changes,” said Russell Whitman, a turkey-market analysis, in a report produced with the Wisconsin Public Radio.
American consumers have experience the bird flu primarily through higher egg prices, and between July 2014 and July 2015 egg prices went up as much as 25% according to the Consumer Price Index (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
The epidemic hit egg production and turkey meat the hardest but did not have much affect on the price of chicken meat, according to David Maloni, president and chief commodity strategist of the American Restaurant Association in a report with CNBC.
Wisconsin’s poultry industry does not just include the US market. Because of the previous outbreak, many foreign countries halted the import of the state’s poultry according to a report done by Wisconsin Public Radio. These bans over the first half of 2015 cost a total of $390 million, which resulted in a 14-percetn drop in overall value according to the USA Poultry and Egg export