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Agriculture officials consider this years cases to be part of last years outbreak, which reached the U.S. in February 2022 after spreading in Europe.

The US Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed that the first commercia...

According to data from the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the presence of bird flu was confirmed on a Jerauld County commercial turkey flock Oct. 4.

Federal officials have confirmed a new avian influenza outbreak in South Dakota.

Sanpete County has now had 141,800 commercial turkeys affected by avian influenza in 2023.

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Highly pathogenic bird flu has made its first appearances in U.S. commercial poultry flocks this season, affecting one turkey farm in South Dakota and one in Utah.

Highly pathogenic bird flu has made its first appearances in U.S. commercial poultry flocks this season, affecting one turkey farm in South Dakota and one in Utah and raising concerns that more outbreaks could follow.

Infected flocks are normally destroyed to prevent the flu’s spread, and then the farms are decontaminated.

Bird flu last year cost U.S. poultry producers nearly 59 million birds across 47 states, including egg-laying chickens and turkeys and chickens raised for meat, making it the country's deadliest outbreak ever.