Michigan’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Director says all dairy and poultry farms need to have the mindset they are already positive for avian influenza.
“Your farm can start being positive before you particularly know it, and it’s already too late to be implementing those biosecurity practices,” he says. “We need to be operating with the philosophy here that every dairy farm potentially can be positive, and everyone needs to be implementing biosecurity.”
State Veterinarian Dr. Nora Wineland says the spread of the virus on dairies has been inconsistent.
“There are farms that have been closed farms, not adding new cattle in, and yet they’re still able to get it,” she explains. “There’s not been the proverbial ‘smoking gun’ been able to be detected for any of these farms.”
Boring says the state has the most known positive cases confirmed in the country because of the ag community’s proactive approach to tracking the disease. He says there will likely be many more positive cases as others increase testing efforts.
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