In what appears to be a replay of February 2022, the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife for the State of Maine has confirmed HPAI among migratory waterfowl in eight counties.

It will be remembered that Avian Influenza strain H5N1 with Eurasian genes was introduced into the Maritime Provinces of Canada by migratory birds moving from northern Europe via Iceland and Greenland to Labrador.  Thereafter, Avian Influenza was disseminated along the Atlantic Flyway extending southward as far as Florida.