A commercial flock of 2.75 million egg-laying chickens in Wisconsin will be culled to prevent the spread of a highly lethal form of avian flu after birds on the farm tested positive for the disease, state officials said on Monday.
Highlights
- A commercial flock of 2.75 million egg-laying chickens in Wisconsin will be culled to prevent the spread of a highly lethal form of avian flu.
- The Wisconsin culls would bring to about 6.7 million the number of commercially raised chickens and turkeys killed nationwide due to bird flu since February.
- It is the biggest U.S.
- outbreak of the disease in poultry since 2015, when nearly 50 million birds died.
- The disease is already widespread in poultry in Europe and affecting Africa, Asia and Canada.
- No human cases of bird flu have been detected in the United States; no human cases have been found in the country.