LOS ANGELES county CA under bird quarantine :(

[Kiki]

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Can you start a new thread with this info....maybe more people will see it that way.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Can you start a new thread with this info....maybe more people will see it that way.

Done.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/virulent-newcastle’s-disease-in-minnesota.1325141/

 

[Kiki]

Done.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/virulent-newcastle’s-disease-in-minnesota.1325141/

 

[roosterhavoc]

Say it ain’t so Jim Bob! Must have imported those fighting cormorants from Mexico. I’ve seen it so I know.

 

[casportpony]

"Wild bird reservoir species
Birds of the Columbidae family (pigeons and doves) and double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) have been implicated as reservoir species for virulent strains of NDV in North America [31]. Sampling of mute swans (Cygnus olor) in the Great Lakes region and along the Atlantic coast of the United States resulted in the detection of live virus and NDV antibodies in 8.7 and 60% of birds, respectively [32]. This suggests that mute swans are regularly exposed to avian avulaviruses and may contribute to viral maintenance in the environment. Kim et al. sampled waterfowl and shorebirds from eight states within the U.S. and compared them to samples from live bird markets collected between 2005 and 2006 and found genetically related viruses [33]. Research on NDV in wild ducks, gulls, and shorebirds found novel viral diversity, but no fusion gene sequences associated with high pathogenicity in poultry [34]. These findings indicate that viral transmission may occur between wild birds and poultry, but virulent strains are likely not reservoired by the majority of wild birds, with pigeons, doves, and double-crested cormorants being the exception."
Source:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5659000/#Sec5title

 

[roosterhavoc]

Still best to kill all the roosters ya know just in case. Especially at those places where someone has more than a couple. They’re obviously up to no good.

 

[Kathy Golla]

I was just going to say exactly what @casportpony just said. This information about cormorants and pigeons being heavier carriers of vnd has been out there for a very long time. It looks like Minnesota just found this out, or retweeted this, poultry industry decided the state needed to test cormorants suddenly...not sure. Nice work @casportpony....

 

[Kiki]

I just called the Minnesota board of animal health.
They confirmed there are Poultry cases...they said something about the St. Paul location was working on updating their website.

 

[roosterhavoc]

So does that make all the rhetoric so many people were spewing in this thread invalid? Trust the govt. All they were doing was trying to limit the spread and commercial losses which was obvious by which birds were killed.

 

[FowlWitch]

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That sucks