Federal and state partners are coordinating disease response after the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and the N.J. Department of Agriculture’s Division of Animal Health confirmed a new Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza poultry case in a Union County live bird market. This is the first positive HPAI case for domestic poultry in New Jersey since 2023.

The N.J. Department of Environmental Protection’s Fish and Wildlife division and APHIS continue to work with local…