A Western Kentucky poultry farm that produces hatching eggs for Perdue Farms Inc. has been quarantined "following the detection of a non-pathogenic or low-pathogenic form of avian influenza" in the birds, reports Dave Russell of Brownfield Network.
“The state and federal government and Perdue are acting aggressively to contain and eliminate the disease,” State Veterinarian Robert Stout said. “There is no evidence that any infected poultry are in the human food supply as a result of this infection. We will do what is necessary to minimize the disruption to overseas trade.”
"Perdue plans to depopulate the 20,000 chickens in two houses on the farm, and the Kentucky Department of Agriculture is also conducting surveillance of backyard flocks within a 2-mile radius of the farm," Russell reports. "The strain poses minimal risk to human health and is not the high-pathogenic strain associated with human and poultry deaths in other countries."
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