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Minnesota Board of Animal Health details continued avian influenza, rabies, swine threats and response needs
Summary
At a regular meeting in Saint Paul, Board of Animal Health staff outlined ongoing surveillance and response efforts for highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1), rabies, African swine fever and other animal disease threats; directors voted to adopt updated bylaws and approved routine meeting minutes and agenda.
The Minnesota Board of Animal Health spent the bulk of its meeting in Saint Paul reviewing an array of active animal-disease threats and the agency’s readiness, while adopting updated board bylaws.
Board Executive Director Brian Hapes told directors that highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) and an uptick in rabies cases continue to demand most of the agency’s staff time. He said the agency is tracking a nationwide decrease in H5N1 detections in some sectors even as the virus persists in wild birds and sporadically appears in commercial poultry and other species, including occasional detections in domestic cats and dairy cattle.
Hapes said the state remains on alert for African swine fever…
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