Understanding Avian Influenza

The resources below have been compiled from a variety of unaffiliated web sites. Maryland Cooperative Extension has considered their content and found them to be relevant and useful, but we do not guarantee the content of third-party web sites, nor do we endorse any commercial enterprises with which they are involved.

This page is a collaborative effort between Maryland Cooperative Extension, Maryland Department of Agriculture, and Maryland Emergency Management Agency.

More resources will be posted here as they are evaluated.

Categories
• General Information
• Family & Home
• Farm & Business

• Good Neighbors: A Health Program for Small and Specialty Poultry Flocks
  from Maryland Cooperative Extension

• Biosecurity For Poultry
  from Maryland Cooperative Extension

• Basic Information About Avian Influenza (Bird Flu)
  from the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

• Avian Influenza in Delaware
  from the USDA Animal & Plant Information Service (APHIS)

• Low pathogenic Avian Influenza
  from the USDA Animal & Plant Information Service (APHIS)

• Avian Influenza Update--February 11, 2004
  Statement from Michael T. Scuse, Secretary of Agriculture
  (Download in MS Word .doc format)

• Avian Influenza Trade Ban Status Report
  from the USDA Animal & Plant Information Service (APHIS)
  (Download in MS Word .doc format)

• What you Should Know About "Bird Flu"
  MCE Tip Sheet - Download in PDF format.

• Fact sheets, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ's), and Notices
  from the USDA Animal & Plant Information Service (APHIS)

• US Department of Agriculture
  Web Homepage

• Biosecurity Procedures For...
  ...Technical Service Personnel
  ...Commercial Poultry Farms
  ...Operators Of: Feed Delivery And Pickup Trucks, Chick Delivery Buses, Egg Pickup Vehicles, Feed Ingredient (Including Grain) Delivery Equipment
  ...Live-Haul Crews #1
  ...Live-Haul Crews #2
  ...Vaccination Crews, Beak Trimming Crews, Pullet/Cockerel Movers, Crews Moving Hens To Slaughter
  ...Poultry Industry Support Companies (Electric And Gas Company Field Personnel, Etc.)
  ...Suppliers Of Goods(Poultry Litter And/Or Vaccines/Drugs And Chemicals)
  ...Live Bird Suppliers And Haulers
  from MCE - Download in PDF format

• MCE Fact Sheets...
  Composting Dead Birds
  Guidelines for In-house Composting of Catastrophic Poultry Mortality
  Composting Catastrophic Event Poultry Mortalities
  What Small Flock Owners Should Know About Bird Flu - Download in PDF format

• Biosecurity: A Vital Key to Poultry Disease Prevention
  from MCE's 'Poultry Perspectives' newsletter

• Avian Influenza Alert
  a copy of the memo distributed by Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc.

• Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus
  (APHIS) Fact Sheet

• Avian Influenza
  Online Chapter from "Foreign Animal Deiseases: "The Gray Book"

• Avian Influenza Fact Sheet
  from the North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services

• Avian Influenza Biosecurity
  from Texas A&M's argrinet forum

• Avian Flu Information
  from the Delaware Department of Agriculture