Turkey has first H5N1 outbreak since 2008, and Taiwan reports 5 more H5N8 outbreaks.
The emergency declaration activates response plans statewide and in affected counties.
Flu activity continues to hang on in a few northeastern states, but most markers declined further last week, except for the hospitalization rate, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today.
Nine more outbreaks in Iowa put that state's losses at a quarter of the state's 60 million layer hens.
Minnesota, the epicenter of the H5N2 avian influenza battle, today reported 11 more outbreaks on poultry farms, including 8 confirmed detections and 3 presumptive positives, raising the state's total to 67.
Avian flu has been found in a dead duck and dead goose in Kentucky and in more farm turkeys in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Almost 10 million Iowa chickens are newly affected, and Minnesota has at least four more turkey outbreaks.
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Apr 25 appointed Peter Jan Graaff to lead the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), taking the place of Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed of Mauritania, who had held the position since late December. Ould Cheikh Ahmed succeeded UNMEER's first chief, Anthony Banbury.
Influenza activity continues to drop in the United States even as rates of hospitalization for flu continue to climb, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its weekly update. The CDC also reported three flu-related deaths in kids.
More outbreaks on both turkey and chicken farms join the rampage of cases of the highly pathogenic H5 infection.
