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APHIS Tribal Webinar: Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Update
January 29 @ 12:00 pm CST
January 29 at 1:00 pm Eastern
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APHIS’ WS National Wildlife Disease Program (NWDP) currently conducts targeted wild bird surveillance activities in all four flyways (Atlantic, Mississippi, Central, and Pacific) and investigations of morbidity/mortality events in wild birds. WS collected around 30,000 samples in 49 states within those flyways during the 2022/2023 surveillance season. WS has collected around to date during the 2023/2024 surveillance season. To summarize, WS is:
- Collaborating with 49 states for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) wild bird surveillance in all four flyways.
- The 2022/2023 HPAI surveillance season collected 90+% of its targeted sample numbers and is currently collecting samples for the 2023/2024 surveillance season with over 14,000 samples collected to date.
- HPAI has also been detected in over 200 mammals across Norther America
During this webinar session, they would like to take the time to update Tribal Nations on the current HPAI situation; the 2023/2024 wild bird HPAI surveillance program encourages feedback for future communication and potential avenues for continued collaboration with Tribal Nations.
If you have questions about the webinar, don’t hesitate to contact ONTL Program Analyst Denise Salvetti at denise.salvetti@usda.gov or the ONTL Director Terry Clark at terry.w.clark@usda.gov.