This is Iowa’s third commercial poultry flock to be struck by HPAI in 2025, with the other two flocks located in O’Brien and Buena Vista counties. More detections in Indiana.

The highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in a commercial turkey flock in Sac County, according to a Wednesday press release from Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship.

As highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) captured the headlines in the last year, another disease is thought to have caused twice as many losses to Iowa turkey farms in 2024 than bird flu.

Bird flu has been found in a turkey flock in another county in Iowa. The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship and the U.S. Department of Agriculture say bird flu or Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza has been found in a commercial turkey flock in Sac County,

A new case of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been confirmed in Iowa. The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship says the disease was detected within a commercial turkey flock in Buena Vista County,

U.S. SENATOR CHUCK GRASSLEY OF IOWA HAS JOINED FELLOW AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE MEMBERS JONI ERNST AND JOHN FETTERMAN OF PENNSYLVANIA IN A LETTER URGING NEW DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE SECRETARY BROOKE ROLLINS TO QUICKLY ADDRESS THE ONGOING SPREAD OF HIGHLY PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA,

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, commonly known as bird flu, has been detected in a commercial turkey flock in Sac County. According to the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship (IDALS),

In March 2024, for the first time in the United States, the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus was recognized as having crossed over from birds into cattle. Experts believe the virus was transmitted a month or two beforehand from birds to dairy cows in the Texas panhandle,

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig says he’s encouraged by the announcement of a plan by the U.S. Ag Secretary to address Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. Naig tells Radio Iowa it is a five-pronged plan.

Bird flu persists in Iowa in 2025, with a northwest Iowa turkey flock where an infection was detected destroyed to prevent the spread of the disease

Americans across the nation are feeling a strain on their wallets due to avian influenza, commonly referred to as the bird flu, which has led to the largest increase in egg prices in 10 years. According to the U.