(KNSI) -Minnesota Animal Health Committee said the H5N1 Influenza Virus was found in the Stearns County dairy for the second time.
The state said the virus was detected through the samples collected according to the milk monitoring plan. The US Department of Agriculture’s National Veterinary Service Laboratory has confirmed the results of Friday, and the crowd is at the quarantine until it meets the test requirements. They say that there is no concern about co -milk safety because all commercially sold milk suffers from low temperature sterilization. This has been proven to remove the active H5N1 with other viruses and bacteria.
This specific group was previously infected in July 2024.
Dr. Brian Hoofs, a state veterinarian, said, “The quarantine will be able to apply for exercise permit for animal and animal products such as waste milk and manure. Milk sold for low temperature sterilization does not require permission and can be treated to promote business to promote business.”
Dairy farms should always dispose of milk from painful animals to prevent them from entering milk. In addition to separating the affected cows and discarding the milk, the quarantine farm must achieve three voice milk tests before lifting the quarantine.
If a positive detection occurs, the Animal Health Committee is notified and dispatched to the affected farm to issue a quarantine station and guide the producers through the response process. The Minnesota Health Department monitors the health of people who are directly in contact with infected animals or environments, providing public health guidelines, tests, antiviral drugs and personal protection equipment as needed. State officials say that the risk of the general public is still low and the risk of working closely with infected animals is the highest.
The Minnesota Agricultural Department conducts monthly tests for inflammatory milk before reproduction in about 1,600 dairy farms in Minnesota. The bulk milk samples collected before low temperature sterilization are sub -sampled in the industrial laboratory and test the H5N1 in the Minnesota Number of Diagnostics at Minnesota University.
The Animal Health Committee will provide updates for Minnesota’s new detection and case. On the website.
Researchers at the University of Minnesota received $ 1.5 million in cooperative agreements from the Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Agriculture, and understood a cooperative project for cooperation projects to understand the disease transmission of dairy and larger agricultural industries and to highly mitigate the effects of HPAI.
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