76th North Central Avian Disease Conference

Call for Abstracts

Minneapolis Convention Center

Minneapolis, Minnesota

April 07 – 08, 2025

This is a call for Titles and Abstracts for the North Central Avian Disease Conference (NCADC). This year’s NCADC will be held on April 07-08, 2025, in Minneapolis Convention Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, in conjunction with PEAK 2025.

This year’s conference theme is “Disease Epidemics: Role of Diagnostics, Vaccination, and Biosecurity” where the focus will be on diagnostics, different vaccination approaches, and variable biosecurity techniques to combat diseases outbreaks.

APHIS Updates Policy to Enhance Surveillance of Turkey Flocks in Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Affected States

As part of its ongoing, multi-faceted efforts to combat the spread of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service today is updating its policy for pre-slaughter surveillance to enhance testing of turkey flocks in affected states.  In late-December 2024, APHIS became aware of a genetic link between turkeys potentially infected with HPAI H5N1, virus detected in raw pet food, and an infected household cat. 

These updates include implementing isolation with clinical monitoring and premovement testing 72 hours prior to sending to slaughter, for turkey premises outside control areas in HPAI-affected states. Specifically, APHIS will be piloting this enhanced pre-slaughter surveillance, starting with turkey premises greater than 500 birds in Minnesota and South Dakota, based on current and historical HPAI detections of commercial turkey premises in these states. These states were selected because of genetic linkages to virus from infected cats and because of the high percentage of cases in turkeys in those states. APHIS will continue to evaluate progress of the outbreak and may update this policy, if needed, to include additional states.

AAAP Semi-Annual History Committee Meeting Invitation

January 17 at 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST

Click Here to Join the Virtual Meeting

The AAAP History of Avian Medicine Committee invites members of the AAAP to participate in their semi-annual committee meeting on January 17 at 2:00 PM EST. The passcode to join is: 905499.

You can click the button below to view the agenda for this meeting. For any questions/concerns, please contact Committee Chair Ton Schat at [email protected].