# JAVMA News in: Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association Volume 256 Issue 11 ()

> Highly pathogenic avian influenza was found on a South Carolina turkey farm in April, leading to depopulation of 32,000 birds. It is the first US HPAI detection since 2017 and was linked to a low-pathogenic H7N3 strain in the same barns.

- Date: 2020-06-01 · published 2020-06-01T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: disease · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/52484-javma-news-in-journal-of-the-american-veterinary-medical-association-volume-256
- Commodities: [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md)

## Why it matters

A single turkey farm loss is small against US poultry output, but any spread would reduce poultry supply and could weigh on chicken prices.

## Read by commodity

- CHICKEN: bearish ▼

## Sources

- avmajournals.avma.org: https://avmajournals.avma.org/view/journals/javma/256/11/javma.256.11.1179.xml

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