Bird flu hits 11 turkey farms

Some 417,600 turkeys will be culled due to outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza on 11 farms over the weekend, said the Agriculture Department on Monday. The outbreaks helped raise the U.S. toll from the viral disease to 22.85 million birds, most of them chickens. North Dakota accounted for 112,000 of the affected turkeys, with… » Read More

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