The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF) is encouraging dairy producers to increase biosecurity measures at their operations in response to several reports of an emerging cattle disease across the nation. Herds affected by the emerging cattle disease have had detections of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) virus. It is currently unknown if this is the only contributing cause of the cattle illness. To date, HPAI has been detected in dairy cattle in Texas, New Mexico, Kansas, Michigan, Idaho, and Ohio. At this time, there have been no reported detections of HPAI in Louisiana dairy cattle or other livestock.
