Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Birds shipped to incinerator and landfills as bird flu spreads to more counties in Iowa - from TRUNEWS

Highly pathogenic avian influenza spread to more counties in Iowa, affecting more than a million additional birds.

Probable cases of bird flu were found at commercial laying operations that reported increased mortality in their flocks in Adair and Webster counties, according to a Tuesday, May 26, 2015 report from the Iowa Department of Agriculture. An estimated 975,000 birds were in the Adair County flock, and an estimated 160,000 were in the Webster County flock.

A commercial laying operation with about one million birds was also believed to be contaminated in Wright County according to a May 27, 2015 statement from the Iowa Department of Agriculture.

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