The second bird flu outbreak in a week was reported Sunday, with nearly 103,000 turkeys infected in northwest Iowa’s Cherokee County.
The Iowa Department of Agriculture reported Tuesday, May 28 that an egg facility with 4.2 million laying hens was infected with the highly pathogenic avian influenza.
On Sunday, the agency announced that 102,891 turkeys in a commercial operation were infected.
The birds at both facilities will be destroyed to prevent the highly contagious virus from spreading. The disease is fatal to domestic birds, who are believed to be infected by migrating wild birds that often don’t appear sick.
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