Animal rights comes to America s Provence and farmers are worried yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Why experts say Merced County was hit hard by nationwide bird flu outbreak kvpr.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kvpr.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The disease known as highly pathogenic avian influenza is wreaking havoc in California, which escaped the earlier wave of outbreaks that devastated poultry farms in the Midwest.
Last month, Mike Weber got the news every poultry farmer fears: His chickens tested positive for avian flu. Following government rules, Weber s company, Sunrise Farms, had to slaughter its entire flock of egg-laying hens — 550,000 birds — to prevent the disease from infecting other farms in Sonoma County north of San Francisco.