Spring migration is underway across Minnesota, and the return of wild birds is raising concerns about a heightened risk of highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI.
Ashley Kohls is the Executive Director for the Minnesota Turkey Growers Association, headquartered in Buffalo. She says so far this spring, Minnesota hasn’t seen any outbreaks…
“If you look at the states surrounding Minnesota, they’ve all had either backyard or commercial cases, recently within the last couple of weeks, and multiple of them. And so just waiting for kind of the flight pathway of wild birds coming up through Minnesota, bringing something here.”
Twenty-three commercial poultry flocks in Minnesota were confirmed with HPAI in 2025.
(content: courtesy MNN)
