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Over 100,000 additional chickens and turkeys have been culled (Murdered) after additional avian influenza was found in a backyard flock in Salt Lake County and multiple commercial facilities in south-central Utah. Most of the new cases were uncovered at three turkey farms in Piute County, between Nov. 10 and Tuesday, resulting in 107,800 turkeys having …
LOGAN, Utah — Several dairy facilities in northern Utah have confirmed cases of “highly pathogenic avian influenza,” agriculture officials reported Wednesday. The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food said the eight facilities with confirmed cases are in Cache County, although no specific facilities were named. The UDAF said all dairies in the county were put …
But this outbreak has killed thousands of seabirds. It’s impacted 80 different species of birds. It has also survived through the summer, a season usually free from influenza in the Northern Hemisphere, and it jumps into mammals, an entirely new host. h/t Mtntulip
The last time I checked on the pandemic of avian flu/bird flu, which has an enormously high infection fatality rate, the disease was poised to become endemic and was beginning to cross over into other species. There have been some recent developments that are troubling. Reports show that the avian flu has hit the Northern California poultry industry hard. …