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Minnesota has declared a state of emergency, claiming three outbreaks have impacted farms.
Minnesota declares state of emergency amid outbreak of trifecta of diseases https://t.co/zmY9oMzjKI
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) February 17, 2025
Fox News reports:
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) stated in a press release that the Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s Rural Finance Authority (RFA) Board established the emergency following three outbreaks.
Those included avian metapneumovirus (aMPV), highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), and the H5N1 flu virus.
The state of emergency allows Minnesota farmers who have experienced livestock losses to access funds through zero-interest disaster recovery loans, according to the above source.
An MDA spokesperson confirmed with Fox News Digital that this declaration is a “formality the Rural Finance Authority Board must take in order to open up the Disaster Recovery Loan Program to farmers.”
“The declaration has no impact beyond that and affects no other funding or programs.”
The loan program provides funds for expenses not covered by insurance, according to the MDA, including replacement of flocks or livestock, building improvements, or loss of revenue due to animal disease outbreaks.
Minnesota declares state of emergency as diseases cripple Midwestern farms https://t.co/GiGRp23Eg5
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 18, 2025
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— End Time Headlines (@EndTimeHeadline) February 18, 2025
Per Daily Mail:
California has also declared an emergency over the bird flu outbreak.
The outbreaks are leading to the mass culling of domestic birds which has driven up the price of eggs — with the average price now having risen 65 percent since the start of 2024 to around $4.95 a dozen.
It comes after a farm worker in Ohio became the fourth American to be hospitalized with bird flu this weekend suffering from respiratory symptoms, with the case reported just 24 hours after another in Wyoming.
Minnesota has detected more than 871 cases of aMPV since April 2024 — compared to the national tally of 2,355 cases over the year to August last year.
Bird flu infections have also been diagnosed in commercial and wild flocks, while nine herds of cattle have tested positive for the disease.
But there have been no cases in humans in the state to date, although local officials said in December they were ‘closely monitoring’ a case diagnosed in neighboring Wisconsin.