The Poultry Pathways webinar hosted by CSU extension opened with talk of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza. Heather Reider, who serves as the CSU Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Avian Health Coordinator said it is a serious concern for Colorado’s $21 million poultry industry.
One bird carcass was delivered to the CSU Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory for preliminary testing, with confirmatory testing being completed at the USDA NVSL on April 8.
Officials learned from a Pitkin County veterinarian that 35 of 36 poultry died in a flock. Test samples were sent to CSU's Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory for preliminary testing and then to the national lab on Friday.
“Colorado poultry owners should immediately increase their biosecurity protocols to protect their flocks, including limiting exposure of domestic birds to wild birds and other poultry flocks and limiting introduction of new birds into flocks.” -Dr. Maggie Baldwin, Colorado State Veterinarian
An international team that includes researchers John Spencer, Ph.D., and Charlotte Avanzi, Ph.D., of the Colorado State University Mycobacteria Research Laboratories has identified leprosy in wild chimpanzees in the West African countries of Guinea-Bissau and Ivory Coast.
A research team at Colorado State University has discovered that drugs used to treat malaria are also effective at treating a pulmonary disease similar to tuberculosis.
A new study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution offers rare insight into the pathway of a common virus in two geographic areas with different wildlife management strategies. The research has implications for the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, which potentially emerged following wildlife-to-human transmission.
“I thought it was really exciting and it kind of seemed almost sort of simple, philosophically-wise,” said Jennifer McLean, one of the MIP 300 instructors, “but to put it into practice and get students to actually change their behavior, that’s a whole other story.”
“SARS-CoV-2, in the realm of coronaviruses, has a very broad species range,” said Laura Bashor.