Georgia Halts Poultry Sales

The Georgia Department of Agriculture announced the suspension of all poultry-related activities in the state after a case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza was detected in a commercial facility.

The positive case of HPAI, found by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service at a commercial poultry operation in Elbert County, Georgia, was the first discovered in a commercial operation in the Peach State, according to a Jan. 17 notice from the Georgia Department of Agriculture.

That means all “in-state poultry exhibitions, shows, swaps, meets, and sales are suspended until further notice.”

Source: State of Georgia Halts Poultry Sales