Use ‘tools of discovery’ and all your senses to identify emerging poultry diseases

Emerging and re-emerging diseases can cause sudden, potentially catastrophic illness and death in commercial poultry flocks, said R.M. “Mick” Fulton, DVM, PhD, with the Michigan State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory in Lansing, Michigan. “It is up to investigators to use all available assets to detect those diseases,” he noted during a presentation at the 2022 North Central Avian Disease Conference. Those assets or tools include scientific tests as well as the human senses. Read more