“Significant” risk of new wave of bird flu in fall or spring

A second wave of the devastating avian influenza could appear this fall or next spring, the chief USDA veterinarian told senators, adding, “We will be ready for that challenge.” Some 49.5 million fowl, almost all of them turkeys and chickens, were lost in a six-month epidemic that ended with the arrival of warm weather in… » Read More

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