D6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 22,1980
Newcastle threat to poultry eliminated
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
The threat to the U.S.
poultry industry posed by
the most recent outbreak of
exotic Newcastle disease m
cage birds appears to have
been elmmated, a U.S.
Department of Agriculture
veterinarian said last
Thursday.
“We feel we’ve found all
the infected birds,” said
Jerry Mason, who coor
dinated the national
program to eradicate this
foreign bird disease.
Farmer’s dollars
topic of PFA panel
HERSHEY - A panel
discussion of farm business
advisors on “Getting The
Most Out of Your Business
Dollars” will take place
Monday afternoon during
the 30th Annual Meeting of
the Pennsylvania Farmers’
Association.
Several hundred farmers’
association leaders have
gathered at the Hershey
Motor Lodge and Convention
Center, November 23 to 26, to
participate in convention
activities, adopt policies on
farm issues and elect of
ficers.
Richard Denison,
Manager of PFA’s Farm
Management and Business
Analysis Service (FM
BASemce) will moderate
the panel discussion which
takes place during the an
nual meeting of PFA’s
Members’ Service Corp. The
panel will include FM
BAService account super
visors who will discuss farm
business organization
through sole proprietorship,
partnership, limited part
nership and corporations,
and a Legal Service attorney
to discuss legal implications.
“However, suspicious
symptoms at a few aviaries
and pet shops are still being
checked
“We were forced to
destroy some 30,000 exotic
cage birds at qiore than 550
locations in 45, states - and
spend more than $2.8 million
- but it was worth it,” he
said.
“USDA estimates that
exotic Newcastle disease
would cost the poultry in
dustry $4OO million annually,
if it became established in
the Umted States. This cost
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would be passed on to con
sumers as higher poultry
and egg prices,” he said A
1971-73 outbreak in southern
California caused the death
or destruction of 12 million
laying hens and cost $56
million to eradicate.
The disease was first
detected-at a Miami, l?la.,
cage bird wholesale facility
September 10. Veterinarians
traced bird shipments from
Miami to 44 other states,
Mason said. The disease was
diagnosed on 61 premises in
23 of those states: Arizona,
Arkansas, California,
Colorado, Delaware*,
Florida, Georgia, Hawaii,
Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana,
Maine, Michigan, Min
nesota, Missouri, Nebraska,
Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Ver
mont, Washington, West
Virginia and New Jersey.
To fight the outbreak,
USDA’s Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service
activated - for the first tune -
all five ot its regional
emergency task forces,
Mason said. USDA and
cooperating state
veterinarians worked from
temporary headquarters in
Miami,Fla., Topeka, Kans.;
HyattsvilJe, Md.; Santa Ana,
Calif., and Houston, Texas,
-to- locate all infected and
exposed birds.
Birds shipped to the in
fected facilities were killed
and specimens submitted to'
USDA’s national veterinary
services laboratories at
Ames, lowa, for testing.
Swab samples taken from
exposed birds were also
submitted to the
laboratories
This procedure made it
possible to destroy only
those birds from facilities
that tested positive. All birds
m a pet shop were killed only
m those 61 instances when
the disease agent was
diagnosed on the premises.
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