LivestockA Benton County herd is under quarantine after eight infected herds in neighbouring Yakima County since 8 October; Washington, Texas and Kansas are the only states with new dairy cases in the past 30 days.
LivestockBrazilian egg shipments reached 2,686 tonnes in September, ABPA says, while the January-September total is down 34% because of last year's exceptional US purchases during its bird flu outbreak.
LivestockH5N1 avian influenza was confirmed near Belford on 19 October, the second case in Great Britain this season, which has now lost its disease-free status; producers are urged to use funded biosecurity reviews.
LivestockWith fall migration under way, USDA Under Secretary Dudley Hoskins warned that wild birds spread highly pathogenic avian influenza along every US flyway and asked producers to limit visitors and keep stock away from wild birds.
LivestockFrom 8 October the EU has blocked live birds, hatching eggs and fresh poultry meat from six named zones hit by avian influenza, while the rest of the three countries keep trading.
LivestockHong Kong's Centre for Food Safety has suspended poultry meat and egg imports from four US counties and Scotland's Isle of Lewis after highly pathogenic H5N1 and H5N5 outbreaks.
LivestockThe Technology Innovation Agency is backing TokaBio's Molecular Rapid Response and Bio-surveillance Programme, which runs mobile and fixed laboratories to detect livestock diseases that cost South Africa export markets.
LivestockFifty-eight outbreaks on chicken and duck farms in winter and spring 2025-26 led to the culling of about 11.3 million layers and 400,000 broiler parent birds, according to a USDA Foreign Agricultural Service report.
LivestockHighly pathogenic H5N5 avian influenza has been confirmed in backyard poultry at Ness on the Isle of Lewis, the first case of the 2026-27 season, and Great Britain has lost its disease-free status.
LivestockThe Department of Agriculture urged strict biosecurity on every site with captive birds; only two cases have been found in Ireland in 2026, while France counted 156 outbreaks last season.
LivestockThe new welfare standards, part of a national plan to phase out conventional cages by 2036, now start in mid-2027, while caged-egg farmers vow to fight the phase-out.
LivestockA USDA Foreign Agricultural Service report expects demand and the EU's ban on Brazilian chicken, in force since 3 September, to lift production after 3.4% growth in 2026.
LivestockThe Canadian Food Inspection Agency found five new cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Manitoba poultry on 21-22 September, the province's first since December.
