Avian Influenza H7N9 -- United States
A form of bird flu that is highly lethal for poultry has infected a 2nd commercial chicken flock in Tennessee that supplies Tyson Foods Inc., the company and the state's agriculture department said on [Thu 16 Mar 2017]. The finding expands an outbreak near major chicken-producing states in the southern United States such as Alabama and Georgia.
The flock in Lincoln County, Tennessee, was infected with H7N9 highly pathogenic flu, the same strain that was reported in another chicken flock
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