On Feb. 11, 2022, the U.S. Department of Agricultureﾒs (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced the expansion of wild bird surveillance for avian influenza to include the Mississippi and Central Flyways. This expansion also enlarged the existing surveillance program in the Atlantic and Pacific Flyways, which was in place to conduct surveillance of birds that may interact with wild birds from Europe and Asia.

APHIS confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza in wild birds in several states in the Atlantic Flyway in January as well as in a commercial turkey flock in Indiana on February 8, and this additional surveillance will increased their capability to track the disease throughout the U.S.