Avian Influenza -- United States
Frigid temperatures are hampering efforts to euthanize turkeys at several south western Indiana farms where a strain of bird flu was found last week [week of 11 Jan 2016], freezing the hoses used to spread a foam that suffocates the affected flocks, a spokeswoman for a state agency said [Mon 18 Jan 2016].
The H7N8 virus was discovered on 10 turkey farms in Dubois County, which is Indiana's top poultry-producing county, last week.
Temperatures that dipped into the teens (deg F) [around
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