Four more probable cases of bird flu have been identified in Iowa, a total of 2.28 million birds, in Osceola, O’Brien and Sioux counties in northwest Iowa, the Iowa Department of Agriculture said Monday.
It would bring the number of birds that have tested positive for avian influenza in Iowa over the past month to nearly 6.2 million birds.
And Iowa’s Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey said in a press conference that a fifth farm in Iowa is believed to be infected with avian influenza, 3.7 million hens at a second facility in Sioux County.
It would bring the total number of birds infected in Iowa to about 9.9 million, with most of the cases coming from commercial egg-laying facilities.
A week ago, a commercial egg-laying facility in Osceola County, with 3.8 million hens, tested positive for H5N2 avian influenza. It is the largest outbreak in the nation.
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