A36—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 4,1984 * • - j propriation intended to assist the /\VI lUHflfi state’s poultry farmers who lost birds prior to the “extraordinary dptodtidp (Continued from Page Al) emergency” declaration. The bill HARRISBURG The Penn . has been sent to Gov. Thornburgh sylyania Department of the disease is still present. About wbolS expected to sign it. Agriculture has provided $34,500 to 50 flocks, representing 2.5 million The state Department of two Petln sylvania universities to birds, are scheduled for re-testing. Agriculture plans to use the money N? 111 research on avian influenza, In the recently initiated sur- reimburse bird losses prior to virus disease threatening the veillance or poultry watch the Nov. 9 emergency declaration, poultry industry, program, approximately 350 Approximately $400,000 will be State Agriculture Secretary poultrymen have signed up to allocated to indemnity payments, Penrose Hallowell said, “Avian partcipate. Through this program, while the remaining $1.6 million influenza has baffled the nation’s the task force hopes to monitor will be used to defrav cleaning and top poultry health specialists for more closely where the disease is, disinfecting costs. many months. Many very im but producer participation is the The Pa. Poultry Federation P° rta nt questions about the key to its success, Baggett said. recommended the following disease, its spread, detection and _ The bulk of the participants, reimbursement formula, based on prevention remain. Baggett said, include small housing capacity, for cleaning and \ ~ ' producers and backyard disinfecting costs* broilers at six cleaning broiler, layer and however, larger commercial SsfSLlrd" turkeys at 21 cenS turkey houses, said John Hoffman, producers are also included. per bird; and i aye rs, pullets and 2! rec J or of J he Poultry Federation. For the program which began breeders at 12 cents per bird. The formula, Hoffman said, has Jan. 16, farmers are asked to Rased on the housing canacitv received favorable consideration collect weekly any birds which t he foria wasderived at from the Department of died of normal causes. These birds through a survey of costs incurred Agriculture, are to be wrapped in plastic bags and then placed in garbage cans at the ends of farm lanes where task force personnel will pick them up. The birds will be processed at the task force lab, William Penn Way, and sent to Ames, lowa, for further testing. “In order to get ahead of the disease, we have to find out what is in the rest of the flocks,” Fichtner said of the poultry watch program. “We hope within the next 60 days to have a clear idea of what is in those flocks,” he added. 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Penn State researchers will focus on “Avian Influenza Sur veillance and Virus Identification by Enzyme Linked Im munosorbent Assay (ELISA).” This $20,500 project is designed to adapt an automated virus detection system to avian in- h' I fluenza using blood samples. Results would be applicable to any laboratory used to test for the disease. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania will analyze “Pathogenisis of Avian Influenza Infection of Chickens.” This $14,000 project will conduct basic research on the disease, its spread, survival of the virus in the en vironment and other factors now m question. “I am confident that the efforts put forth by Pennsylvania’s top notch agricultural research in stitutions will help develop con crete answers for the state’s poultry farmers,” said Hallowell. The two projects should last ap proximately 18 months. 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