Exotic Newcastle Disease (END)

Specific News Alerts & Warnings

• Emergency Management Warning Updates: (APHIS) Go to this website and scroll about half-way down to the "2003 EMOC Notices/Warnings"  (updated daily)

• Bird Disease Outbreak Over in Gonzales, Texas, Area (4/1/04)
• CALIFORNIA FREE OF EXOTIC NEWCASTLE DISEASE - Statewide Quarantine Finally Lifted!  (9/16/03)
• Texas Press Release - Birds & Poultry Free to "Fly the Coop" -- Disease Quarantines Released in TX & NM (6-11-03)
• END Task Force expands opportunities for home quarantine & isolation for caged birds (2/13/03)
• Avian flu fight proposed - Live-bird markets would be targeted - (2/9/03)
• Texas Press Release - END Spreads to AZ; Outbreak Affects Trade with 34 Countries (2/7/03)
• Va. taking bird illness seriously - (2/4/03)
• Exotic Newcastle 'wake-up call' for poultry industry, vet warns (1/28/03)
• Nebraska - Alert issued for potential disease affecting birds  (1/23/03)
• Newcastle Quarantine Spreads to Pet Birds - (1/21/03)
• Canada Adds Nevada to its Poultry Import Ban List (1/20/03)
• Georgia Press Release - Ag Commissioner Asks Georgians To Be  Vigilant Against END (1/17/03)
• Deadly bird disease leads to Oregon quarantine (1/17/03)
• Outbreak: Utah Bans Imports of Birds (1/17/03)

New YAHOO website!

• There is a new Yahoo group where you can meet and discuss END.
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/END-birds/

Miscellaneous END information

• END Update Report - 6/10/03
• The History of Exotic Newcastle Disease (END) in the US  - (2/17/03)
• California Policy on Pet & Exotic Birds Housed in Cages within Enclosed Structures - (2/13/03)
• Gamefowl Warning - You can protect your birds from Exotic Newcastle Disease - (2/6/03)

States that limit/ban poultry imports, exports, exhibitions, sales and auctions because of this outbreak.

• Arizona - http://agriculture.state.az.us/newcastle.htm
• California - http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/sregs/ct.html
• Florida - http://www.doacs.state.fl.us/ai/enewcast.htm 
• Georgia - http://www.agr.state.ga.us/html/exotic_new.html
• Hawaii - http://hawaiiag.org/hdoa/newsrelease/03-02.htm
• Iowa - http://www.agriculture.state.ia.us/press/press188.htm 
• Massachusetts - http://www.state.ma.us/dfa/animalhealth/diseases/newcastle_update.htm
• Nevada - http://agri.state.nv.us/ENDPR.pdf
• Oregon - http://oda.state.or.us/information/news/030117newcastle.html  
• Texas - http://www.agr.state.ga.us/html/avian_influenza.html
• Utah - http://ag.utah.gov/pressrel/newcastle.html
• Washington - http://access.wa.gov/news/article.asp?name=n0301154.htm

Specific websites with END related News 

• The following link is to the State of California's END website.
  http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/ahfss/ah/Newcastle_info.htm 
  
• The following link is to ProMed - California END website http://www.promedmail.org/pls/askus/f?p=2400:1001:397797::NO::F2400
  P1001_BACK_PAGE,F2400_P1001_PUB_MAIL_ID:1010,19469 
   
• The following link is to ProMed - Texas END website.
  http://www.promedmail.org/pls/askus/f?p=2400:1001:397797::NO::F2400_
  P1001_BACK_PAGE,F2400 P1001_PUB_MAIL_ID:1010,19483 

• The following link is to APHIS' END website.
  http://www.aphis.usda.gov/lpa/issues/enc/exoticnc.html

What is Exotic Newcastle Disease?

• APHIS Fact Sheet on Exotic Newcastle (January 2002)
  http://www.aphis.usda.gov/oa/pubs/fsend.html

• Newcastle Disease: Protecting Poultry Farmers on Two Fronts
  http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/oct99/front1099.htm