Bird Flu In Minnesota 2024. Department of agriculture (usda), the food and drug administration (fda), state. Federal health officials are encouraging farm workers who tend livestock and poultry to get vaccinated for seasonal influenza to help prevent a bird flu mutation that might spark a pandemic in people.

The highly pathogenic avian influenza (hpai) strain, h5n1, was detected in domestic poultry, wild birds and wild foxes in minnesota during spring 2022. Bird flu has infected a benton county dairy herd, marking the first confirmed detection of the virus in cows in minnesota.