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Information and resources regarding the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).

When it comes to starting your own backyard flock, do not put all your eggs in one basket too soon!

The announcement of the eighth case of HPAI in Nebraska came just before the CDC announced the first human case of bird flu has been confirmed in neighboring Colorado.

With farmers fearful of losing their entire flocks from kansas. >> you can take all the precautions you want to and you still might have a backyard flock that could catch this virus >> reporter: to long island, new york >> one little case and it could spread to the others, the next thing you know theyll all be gone. >> reporter: the map shows bird flu cases have spread across at least a third of the country, often carried by wild geese and ducks, sometimes drinking or eating from the same source...

This case is in a small backyard mixed flock, according to the agency.

A highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in a non-commercial backyard flock of birds on Long Island in New York, federal authorities confirmed Saturday. Samples from the flock were tested at the Cornell University Animal Health Diagnostic Center and confirmed at the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service laboratories in Ames, Iowa. New York state officials have quarantined the site in Suffolk County and birds on the affected properties “will be depopulated to pre...