Saturday, February 12, 2022

A new bird flu outbreak?

Federal authorities are planning to increase its monitoring of wild, migratory birds to better track bird flu, which can be spread from wild birds to livestock. dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images Reuters reports,
The disease is already widespread in Europe and affecting Africa, Asia and Canada, but the outbreak in Indiana, which is on a migratory bird pathway, particularly rattled U.S. producers. A devastating US bird-flu outbreak in 2015 killed nearly 50 million birds, mostly turkeys and egg-laying chickens in the Midwest.
Read more here: https://nypost.com/2022/02/11/chicken-producers-warn-about-fast-spreading-bird-flu-spreading-across-us/

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