Governor Mark Dayton declared a state of emergency related to the bird flu outbreak in Minnesota.
One affected farm is just east of Hawley Minnesota. At Baer Brothers Co. an initial test for the virus came back “presumably positive.” The USDA still has to confirm that positive test result.
As we wait to find out the fate of 300,000 chickens at the Baer farm, Valley News Live Farm Director and Meteorologist Mick Kjar explains a fear many scientists have – avian flu is airborne.
“It’s carried by migratory waterfowl, that’s the way everybody thought. We’re in the mid-west flyway and the birds flying south to north were carrying it,” Kjar says.
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