The bird flu has hit a turkey farm in Washington County with nearly 20,000 birds, the Indiana State Board of Animal Health said Wednesday.
It’s the latest in a series of farms impacted in Indiana and across the world, an outbreak the board of animal health has called “the United States’ largest animal health emergency in history.”
The farm is the second to be impacted in Washington County. On Friday, another turkey farm with more than 14,000 birds was hit. That farm has been “depopulated” according to the state’s dashboard.
The bird flu has impacted millions of birds in Indiana, including a massive outbreak at an egg production facility in Seymour late last month. Those 2.6 million birds are marked as “depopulated” on the state dashboard.
In farms where the outbreak is detected, the entire flock is typically euthanized. According to the Indiana Board of Animal Health’s dashboard, most flocks impacted over the past year have been killed.
Highly pathogenic avian influenza, the current strain, is lethal to birds but has a low risk for humans. According to the CDC’s dashboard updated Wednesday, 69 total human cases and one associated death have been reported since 2024 — mostly among dairy and poultry workers.
