The purpose of this agreement is to provide monitoring and surveillance for notifiable avian influenza in iowa to quickly diagnose, control, and prevent the spread of all H5 and H7 notifiable avian…

The purpose of this agreement is to provide monitoring and surveillance for notifiable avian influenza in iowa to quickly diagnose, control, and prevent the spread of all H5 and H7 notifiable avian influenza subtypes which might occur in the state. Activities to be performed - the cooperator will contract with iowa state university veterinary diagnostic laboratory to test samples submitted by poultry producers for avian influenza. The cooperator will promote biosecurity in the poultry industry in iowa. Educational outreach to national poultry improvement plan and non-plan participants will also be performed throughout the year via a quarterly newsletter, monthly disease updates and other communications. Further outreach will be provided at various events including the iowa poultry association fall festival and annual meeting, webinars, iowa state fair, poultry blood testing school, iowa EGG symposium, master's cup poultry show, small flock and allied industry biosecurity workshops. Three national poultry improvement plan biosecurity audits will be conducted of commercial layer, broiler, turkey, and game bird biosecurity policies. The map of poultry premises in iowa will be maintained. Five national poultry improvement plan labs will be audited. Three avian influenza veterinarian training workshops will be presented. A tabletop exercise will be conducted. An iowa poultry exhibition health book will be drafted and distributed. Deliverables and expected outcomes - the goals of the award are to accomplish necessary surveillance of poultry in iowa for notifiable avian influenza by conducting 17,200 tests for avian influenza. Two hundred poultry necropsies will be conducted. Thirty PCR panels for AI, MG, ND, and ILT will be conducted. The recipient will report the number of samples tested, in the quarterly avian report as described in appendix 11 to the FY 2024 veterinary services grants and agreements program guide. Three national poultry improvement plan biosecurity audits will be conducted of commercial layer, broiler, turkey, and game bird producers' biosecurity policies this year. Five national poultry improvement plan laboratories will be audited. The map of locations of poultry premises in iowa will be maintained. PCR test kits for avian influenza will be mailed to high-risk flocks. The national poultry improvement plan coordinator will track and maintain veterinary services forms 9-2 and 9-3. Two biosecurity consultations will be held with small and high-risk flocks in conjunction with contracted iowa state university poultry extension veterinarians. Intended beneficiaries - the entire poultry industry, including backyard flocks, will benefit by quickly identifying and responding to any incursions of notifiable avian influenza. Consumers of poultry will benefit if flocks are able to maintain a high level of production without notifiable avian influenza affecting their flocks. Subrecipient activities - a subaward will be provided to iowa state university to conduct the testing of samples for avian influenza. A subaward will be provided to a contractor to maintain a mapping project for poultry premises in iowa. A subaward will be provided to iowa state university for the assistance of iowa state university poultry extension veterinarians to conduct biosecurity consultations with small and high-risk flocks.